My life as a princes, or a peasant, is not worth living…

Every peasant cuisine has incredible ingenious tricks for getting a lot of nutrition out of a small amount of ingredients. There are people who…

— Michael Pollan

“. . . and I want you all to remember--that you must not dream yourselves back to the times before the war, but the…

— Kim Malthe-Bruun

The Americans never use the word peasant, because they have no idea of the class which that term denotes; the ignorance of more remote…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Exploration was for those with a measure of peasant blood, those with big thighs and thick ankles who could take punishment as they took…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

The general of a large army may be defeated, but you cannot defeat the determined mind of a peasant.

— Confucius

They were beaten to start with. They were beaten when they took them from their farms and put them in the army. That is…

— Ernest Hemingway

“Perhaps J. P. Morgan did as a child have very severe feelings of inadequacy, perhaps his father did believe that he would not amount…

— Anonymous

I cook a little bit. I make a Hungarian dish called chicken paprikash that's out of this world. I'll give a heads-up to all…

— Adam Carolla

“The fields that push up the corn, and the water that rushes down the ravine, the juice of the grape, and the life of…

— Irving Stone

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

— Niccolo Machiavelli

The peasant finds no "natural" urgency within himself that will drive him toward Picasso in spite of all difficulties. In the end the peasant…

— Clement Greenberg

The wisest man may always learn something from the humblest peasant.

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

— John Updike

It is easier to make a lady of a peasant-girl than a peasant-girl of a lady.

— Johann Gottfried Herder

Every lord's mansion stands on the foundation of your bones, soldier, every field has been saturated with your sweat, and you, peasant, even if…

— Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont