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All Things Wise and Wonderful (All Creatures Great and Small, #5-6) QUOTES

All Things Wise and Wonderful (All Creatures Great and Small, #5-6) QUOTES

1 " This old man had once told me that he left school when he was twelve, whereas I had spent most of the twenty-four years in my life in study. Yet when I looked back on the last hour or so I could come to only one conclusion. I'd had more of books, but he had more of learning. "

― James Herriot , All Things Wise and Wonderful (All Creatures Great and Small, #5-6)

2 " Why had I entered this profession? I could have gone in for something easier and gentler—like coalmining or lumberjacking. "

― James Herriot , All Things Wise and Wonderful (All Creatures Great and Small, #5-6)

3 " onto a heap, making a churned brown trail across the whiteness. ‘Now then,’ he muttered along the side of a half-smoked cigarette. He was over seventy but still ran the smallholding single-handed. He told me once that he had worked as a farm hand for six shillings a day for thirty years, yet still managed "

― James Herriot , All Things Wise and Wonderful (All Creatures Great and Small, #5-6)

4 " This old man had once told me that he left school when he was twelve, whereas I had spent most of the twenty-four years of my life in study. Yet when I looked back on the last hour or so I could come to only one conclusion. I’d had more of books, but he had more of learning. "

― James Herriot , All Things Wise and Wonderful (All Creatures Great and Small, #5-6)

5 " as long as a man can pay ’is way, he’s got enough. "

― James Herriot , All Things Wise and Wonderful (All Creatures Great and Small, #5-6)

6 " As soon as I got hold of the teats I could see "

― James Herriot , All Things Wise and Wonderful (All Creatures Great and Small, #5-6)

7 " She was too good a cook and I was too faithful a disciple of her art. "

― James Herriot , All Things Wise and Wonderful (All Creatures Great and Small, #5-6)

8 " cockney, "

― James Herriot , All Things Wise and Wonderful (All Creatures Great and Small, #5-6)

9 " byre "

― James Herriot , All Things Wise and Wonderful (All Creatures Great and Small, #5-6)

10 " I thought of the object lesson which I thought he had given me, but in fact it was a lesson of another kind and one which I have never forgotten; that there are countless people like Paul who are not what they seem. "

― James Herriot , All Things Wise and Wonderful (All Creatures Great and Small, #5-6)

11 " But I’m having the agony. I’ve been dreading this happening for so long. I haven’t been able to sleep for thinking about it. It seems so cruel and unjust for this to strike a helpless animal—a little creature who’s never done anybody any harm. "

― James Herriot , All Things Wise and Wonderful (All Creatures Great and Small, #5-6)

12 " The clever economists who tell us that we don’t need British agriculture and that our farms should be turned into national parks seem to ignore the rather obvious snag that an unfriendly country could starve us into submission in a week. But to me a greater tragedy still would be the loss of a whole community of people like "

― James Herriot , All Things Wise and Wonderful (All Creatures Great and Small, #5-6)

13 " Finally they got me in, half lying across the back seat. My face was pressed against the side window and from the outside it must have been a grotesque sight with the nose squashed sideways and a solitary dead-mackerel eye staring sightlessly into the night. "

― James Herriot , All Things Wise and Wonderful (All Creatures Great and Small, #5-6)

14 " Remember to wear your identity discs at all times. We had two prangs last week – couple of fellers burned beyond recognition and neither of ’em was wearing his discs. We didn’t know who they were. "

― James Herriot , All Things Wise and Wonderful (All Creatures Great and Small, #5-6)