“The wisdom of peasants shows itself in their ability to pretend that they are fools.” — Shūsaku Endō Copy Share Image
The peasants of all lands recognize power and they salute it, whether it's good or evil. — Andrei Codrescu Copy Share Image
Do not eat garlic or onions; for their smell will reveal that you are a peasant. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
A doctor may know more than a peasant, but a peasant and a doctor know more together. — Dan Buettner Copy Share Image
Fairy elves, Whose midnight revels by a forest side Or fountain some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Custom is the great leveller. It corrects the inequality of fortune by lessening equally the pleasures of the prince and the pains… — Henry Home, Lord Kames Copy Share Image
The true faith discovered was When painted panel, statuary, Glass-mosaic, window-glass, Amended what was told awry By some peasant gospeler. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
The benefit of rich families putting their child through Harvard is always going to exist. But it's quite evident that there are… — Michael J. Saylor Copy Share Image
The Terror-Famine of 1932-33 was a dual-purpose by product of collectivization, designed to suppress Ukrainian nationalism and the most important concentration of… — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
some bosses are so greedy (for themselves only) they forget underlings are not thirteenth-century peasants who can be satisfied with a glass… — Helen Gurley Brown Copy Share Image
The world is divided between peasants and kings, but the truth is everybody's looking for the same thing. — Eyedea Copy Share Image
The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
On Sundays, at the matin-chime, The Alpine peasants, two and three, Climb up here to pray; Burghers and dames, at summer's prime,… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Though, as he was torn into a pink upper air, she was a good craft to ride in, for her belly was… — Thomas Keneally Copy Share Image
Once upon a time there was an island named Blogosphere, and at the very center of that island stood a great castle… — Nicholas G. Carr Copy Share Image
“economic pie of 2014 is far larger than the pie of 1500, but it is distributed so unevenly that many African peasants… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“There, on the corner, stood a thick crowd of people, all of them peasants. He made his way into the very thick… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
That all who are happy are equally happy is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Art is no longer snobbish or cowardly. It teaches peasants to use tractors, gives lyrics to young soldiers, designs textiles for factory… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
The revolution in Russia was terrible for the proletariat in the long years of its development and it is terrible now, after… — Herman Gorter Copy Share Image
Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable. Never drink when you are wretched without it, or you will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If this government can send 20 billion dollars to Latin America to some peasants who have never fought for this country or… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“What I’m talking about is the order of chosen men who inherit power. From Pharaohs and kings to bankers and executives. Their… — Nick Drnaso Copy Share Image
Those who came to the United States didn't realize they were white until they got here. They were told they were white.… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
It was too difficult. People weren't prepared to put in the hours on the donkey work - you know, dates and facts… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
In the United States, many people said you can't have folk music in the United States because you don't have any peasant… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
“Most peasants did not miss the school. "What's the point?" they would say. "You pay fees and read for years, and in… — Jung Chang Copy Share Image
“The master and mistress of the house and the rest of the Blood -even the Crux himself- brought our food, poured the… — Sarah Micklem Copy Share Image
The wisest man may always learn something from the humblest peasant. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
The prince and the peasant will not be equalized by cutting off the prince's head. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I like army boots, I like peasant skirts - sometimes together! So I do know that I have odd taste. — Mayim Bialik Copy Share Image
There are no bridges in folk songs because the peasants died building them. — Eugene Chadbourne Copy Share Image
