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The peasant is the only species of human being who doesn't like the country and never looks at it. — Jules Renard

The stupider the peasant, the better the horse understands him. — Anton Chekhov

There are not the weeds the ones that drown the good seed, but the negligence of the peasant. — Confucius

While eating a delicious food, remember the peasants and the workers who made this possible! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Where were the gods then? The gods don't care about men, no more than kings care
about peasants. — George R R Martin

Beauty can make a woman rich, but if she relies solely on her looks to get by, she'll always remain under a man's thumb. — Ma Jian

According to an OGPU report, so many livestock had been slaughtered in the Central Black Earth Region that peasants were feeding pigs with meat. — Lynne Viola

I'm a big star. I don't need to be dealing with you peasants! — Scott Disick

I eat leftover caviar by hand, with baked potato, like peasants. — Ion Tiriac

Sensible men no longer belive in miracles; they were invented by priests to humbug the peasants. — Alfonso X Of Castile

The peasant wants only to be left alone to prosper in peace. — Niccolo Machiavelli

The townspeople are morons, yokels, peasants and genus homo boobiensis ... surrounded by gaping primates from the upland vallies. — H.L. Mencken

Crucially, though, the peasants had few guns, and poor organization. — Timothy Snyder

Success as a result of industry is a peasant's ideal. — Wallace Stevens

Peasants had to work harder than foragers to eke out less varied and nutritious food, and they were far more exposed to disease and exploitation. — Yuval Noah Harari

A virtuous name is the precious only good, for which queens and peasants' wives must contest together. — Friedrich Schiller

Patton was living in the Dark Ages. Soldiers were peasants to him. I didn't like that attitude. — Bill Mauldin

The Poor Peasants' Committees are necessary to fight the kulaks, the rich, the exploiters, who shackle the working peasants. — Vladimir Lenin

The world is divided between peasants and kings, but the truth is everybody's looking for the same thing. — Eyedea

Your Majesty, I took the liberty because I was so desirous of visiting alone with you for a few minutes before the rest of the other peasants arrived. — Walter Annenberg

Even peasants can build a cathedral. — Daryl Gregory

Land ownership has never been a problem. People have access to land. The peasants cannot complain about land ownership. — Jakaya Kikwete

I call the Lancashire trade immoral, because it was raised and is sustained on the ruin of millions of India's peasants. — Mahatma Gandhi

It is easier to make a lady of a peasant-girl than a peasant-girl of a lady. — Johann Gottfried Herder

You peasant swain! You whoreson malt-horse drudge! — William Shakespeare

Listen: two years ago peasants from some godforsaken — Andrzej Sapkowski

If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt. — G. M. Trevelyan

I have the faith of a Breton peasant and by the time I die I hope to have the faith of a Breton peasant's wife. — Louis Pasteur

Were Kennedy not a millionaire, illiterate and ignorant, then he would obviously understand that you cannot revolt against the peasants. — Fidel Castro

I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously. — Baron De Montesquieu

Peasants were worried about the future not just because they had more cause for worry, but also because they could do something about it. — Yuval Noah Harari

We love fantasy novels in which the characters think that they're peasants but turn out to be princes and kings. — Matthew Tobin Anderson

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly. — Michel De Montaigne

Let new India arise out of peasants' cottage, grasping the plough, out of huts, cobbler and sweeper. — Swami Vivekananda

Children, old crones, peasants, and dogs ramble; cats and philosophers stick to their point. — H.P. Lovecraft

The world is stuffed full of peasants. — Shirley Coleman

My parents were ignorant peasants from the Old World. — Maurice Sendak

It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor. — Nelson Mandela

I met Jonah Lomu. I never knew how huge he was. I felt like a peasant in a Godzilla movie. 'Quickly! Tell the other villagers! We go now!' — Robin Williams

Learn to swim. It is a sport all the peasants can play. — Mao Zedong

I live in the USSR, work actively and count naturally on the worker and peasant spectator. If I am not comprehensible to them I should be deported. — Dmitri Shostakovich

Moujiks. Right. What's a moujik?" the Tsar asked.
"Peasants, your majesty."
"Pheasants?"
"No! Peasants. — Eric Metaxas

A small number of peasants - brave peasants - shot down two Apaches — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

Academic Marxism is a fantasy world, and unctuous compassion-sweepstakes, into which real workers or peasants never penetrate. — Camille Paglia

Sophia Loren plays peasants. I play ladies. — Gina Lollobrigida

Kerensky he dismissed in yet another snappy line, describing him as 'a balalaika on which they play to deceive the workers and peasants'. — Catherine Merridale

You build a thing of beauty, and then the peasants storm the castle, hooting and chanting and calling you a heretic. — Vic S. Sussman

Oh blessed a thousand times the peasant who is born, eats and dies without anybody bothering about his affairs. — Giuseppe Verdi

I remembered the way out suggested by a great princess when told that the peasants had no bread: "Well, let them eat cake". — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I am the son of peasants and I know what is happening in the villages. That is why I wanted to take revenge, and I regret nothing. — Gavrilo Princip

But the peasants - how do the peasants die? — Leo Tolstoy

Give the peasants neither life nor death. — Ieyasu Tokugawa

Tis Fate that flings the dice,
And as she flings
Of kings makes peasants,
And of peasants kings. — John Dryden

There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants. — Mao Zedong

There is nothing more awkward to look at, said Joejoe, than peasants in suits. They don't fit into them. — Dermot Healy

A country peopled by peasants, priests and pixies. — Robert Kilroy-Silk

Don't ever eat your bread without remembering the hardworking peasants! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

When a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating. — Emile Zola

The brew was military style "A" - freshly made and scalding, suitable for pouring down on peasants attacking the family castle. — Jeff Grubb

There are no bridges in folk songs because the peasants died building them. — Eugene Chadbourne

a small number of wealthy landowners has dominated a large population of landless and small-holding peasants. — BOB

Could I but know all, I would have the faith of a Breton peasant woman — Louis Pasteur

I don't have to be walking around like some peasant. I'm royalty! — Scott Disick

The lord is the peasant that was,
The peasant is the lord that shall be. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nobles and peasants marry early. Businessmen tend to wait. — David Eddings

The peasants of all lands recognize power and they salute it, whether it's good or evil. — Andrei Codrescu

I am officially a doctor, and believe it or not, I can save lives and tune certain instruments and can beat peasants with a stick. — Sanjeev Bhaskar

Reasons are for peasants. — Matthew Woodring Stover

Basically the French are all peasants. — Pablo Picasso

The prince and the peasant will not be equalized by cutting off the prince's head. — Mahatma Gandhi

Ingrid shrugged ... like Marie Antoinette hearing about the starving peasants. — Peter Abrahams