Importance of Cows

"All the really good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow" ~Grant Wood "As for butter versus margarine, I trust cows more than chemists" ~Joan Gussow "A cow is a very good animal in the field, but we turn her out of a garden" ~Samuel Johnson "The cow is of the bovine m ilk; One end is moo, the other, milk" ~Ogden Nash "When a cow laughs, does milk come out her nose?" ~Author Unknown "I guess cows aren't into the four food groups, especially when they are two of them" ~Anthony Clark "All is not butter that comes from the cow" ~Proverb "Opie, you haven't finished your milk.  We can't put it back in the cow, you know" ~From the Andy Griffith Show "Condensed milk is wonderful. I don't see how they can get a cow to sit down on those little cans" ~Fred Allen "The friendly cow, all red and white, I love with all my heart: She gives me cream with all her might, To eat with apple-tart" ~Robert Louis Stevenson "Scientists tell us that the fastest animal on earth, with a top speed of 120 feet per second, is a cow that has been dropped out of a helicopter" ~Dave Barry "Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the field in hopes that the cow will back up to them" ~Elbert Hubbard "A mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutriment from cows" ~George Bernard Shaw "The cow is nothing but a machine which makes grass fit for us people to eat" ~John McNulty "Never kick a cow chip on a hot day" ~Proverb "Sacred cows make the best hamburgers" ~Mark Twain "Who was the first guy that look at a cow and said, "I think that I'll drink whatever comes out of those things when I squeeze them?"" ~Bill Watterson "Milk the cow, but do not pull off the udder" ~Greek Proverb "If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow" ~William Lyon "Whoever needs milk, bows to the animal" ~Yiddish Saying "The human body has no more need for cows' milk than it does for dogs' milk, horses' milk, or giraffes' milk" ~Michael Klaper "Tongue - a variety of meat, rarely served because it clearly crosses the line between a cut of beef and a piece of a dead cow" ~Bob Ekstrom "I'd rather kiss a mad cow on the muzzle than a smoker on the mouth" ~Paul Carvel "I go about looking at horses and cattle.  They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young.  I am sick with envy of them" ~Sherwood Anderson "There's nothing like sitting back and talking to your cows" ~Russell Crowe "There's something about getting up at 5 a.m., feeding the stock and chickens, and milking a couple of cows before breakfast that gives you a lifelong respect for the price of butter and eggs" ~Bill Vaughan "I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk" ~Henry Louis Mencken "Custard:  A detestable substance produced by a malevolent conspiracy of the hen, the cow, and the cook" ~Ambrose Bierce "He who lets the goat be laid on his shoulders is soon after forced to carry the cow" ~Italian Proverb "Greatness alone in not enough, or the cow would outrun the hare" ~Proverb "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are good is like expecting the bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian" ~Dennis Wholey "The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing" ~Lord Chesterfield