As Wright County's Hawk-Eye reporter for OUR IOWA magazine, I receive a colorful calendar from them as a Christmas gift.
Here are a couple of fun quotes from famous Iowans' maybe funny sayings. Enjoy:
"The old farmer sez:
'Old age is when you still have something on the ball,
but you're just too tired to bounce it.'"
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"I was so naive as a kid, I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing."
~ Johnny Carson, born in Corning, long-time TV host of "Tonight Show".
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"There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience."
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"Anger is only one letter short of danger."
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"Courage is being scared to death......and saddling up anyway."
~ John Wayne, actor and Winterset native
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"If your outgo exceeds your income, your upkeep will be your downfall."
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"The old farmer sez:
'Ever stop to think, and forget to start again?'"
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"Don't let yesterday use up too much of today."
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"Train up a child in the way he or she should go,
and walk there yourself once in a while."
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"When you've seen one shopping center,
you've seen a mall."
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"I didn't have to make up anything. I simply remembered Mason City as closely as I could."
~ Composer Meredith Willson, speaking of River City and his hit musical 'The Music Man'
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