The wisest man may always learn something from the humblest peasant. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
I knew, as every peasant does, that land can never be truly owned. We are the keepers of the soil, the curators… — Lisa St. Aubin de Terán Copy Share Image
Remember the valiant Iraqi peasant and how he shot down an American Apache with an old weapon. — Saddam Hussein Copy Share Image
“All men are by nature equal, and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty… — Plato Copy Share Image
They tell a woman to treat her man like a king but why treat a man like a king when he only… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“She was sorceress on paper, a goddess in her mind but a mere peasant to everyone living in her present times.” — Curtis Tyrone Jones Copy Share Image
“Lying on his bed feels like wiping my dirty peasant feet on the throne.” — Holly Black Copy Share Image
The general of a large army may be defeated, but you cannot defeat the determined mind of a peasant. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Those who would attain to any marked degree of excellence in a chosen pursuit must work, and work hard for it, prince… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
I had a moral opposition to eating before dawn on the grounds that I was not a nineteenth-century Russian peasant fortifying myself… — John Green Copy Share Image
Who keeps the tavern and serves up the drinks? The peasant. Who squanders and drinks up money belonging to the peasant commune,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
My parents came from working-class, small-peasant, farm-labourer backgrounds and had made the grade during the fascist years; my father came out of… — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
“All men are by nature equal, made of the same earth by one workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto… — Elizabeth Hunter Copy Share Image
The goofiness of radicals thinking they have to dress in Guatemalan peasant clothes. The poor don't want you to look like them.… — Tracy Kidder Copy Share Image
Give me a few minutes.” “You have time.” He sat in the grass. “Are you just going to sit there and watch… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult… — John Berger Copy Share Image
They were beaten to start with. They were beaten when they took them from their farms and put them in the army.… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Perhaps J. P. Morgan did as a child have very severe feelings of inadequacy, perhaps his father did believe that he would… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every peasant cuisine has incredible ingenious tricks for getting a lot of nutrition out of a small amount of ingredients. There are… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
There arent many great passages written about food, but I love one by George Millar, who worked for the SOE in the… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
Every lord's mansion stands on the foundation of your bones, soldier, every field has been saturated with your sweat, and you, peasant,… — Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont Copy Share Image
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… — Adam Carolla Copy Share Image
These are the hands whose sturdy labor brings The peasant's food, the golden pomp of kings; This is the page whose letters… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
The Americans never use the word peasant, because they have no idea of the class which that term denotes; the ignorance of… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“. . . and I want you all to remember--that you must not dream yourselves back to the times before the war,… — Kim Malthe-Bruun Copy Share Image
“Peasant families were close-knit. However, as the Black Death swept through village after village, it became difficult for young peasants to find… — Patricia D. Netzley Copy Share Image
“There was a scavenging peasant moving about, whistling as he worked, with an outsize gunny sack on his back. The whitened knuckles… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“A little while ago, I stood by the grave of the old Napoleon —a magnificent tomb of gilt and gold, fit almost… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“The fields that push up the corn, and the water that rushes down the ravine, the juice of the grape, and the… — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
It is easier to make a lady of a peasant-girl than a peasant-girl of a lady. — Johann Gottfried Herder Copy Share Image
I am a peasant from the Auvergne. I want to keep my farm, and I want to keep France. Nothing else matters… — Pierre Laval Copy Share Image
