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
I am officially a doctor, and believe it or not, I can save lives and tune certain instruments and can beat peasants… — Sanjeev Bhaskar Copy Share Image
Happy is it, indeed, for me that my heart is capable of feeling the same simple and innocent pleasure as the peasant… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If God grants me longer life, I will see to it that no peasant in my kingdom will lack the means to… — Henry IV of France Copy Share Image
There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There were no "unemployed" in the impoverished Polish countryside before the Second World War. Not a single unemployed. Every child that was… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
As to whether Marcos is gay: Marcos is gay in San Francisco, black in South Africa, an Asian in Europe, a Chicano… — Subcomandante Marcos Copy Share Image
There are several studies done of peasant uprisings where the first chapter might be 'conditions in that area' and so the conditions… — Vijay Prashad Copy Share Image
For the first time the peasant has seen real freedom - freedom to eat his bread, freedom from starvation. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
No Bolshevik, no Communist, no intelligent socialist has ever entertained the idea of violence against the middle peasants. All socialists have always… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Hope, and fear. Twin forces that tugged at us first in one direction and then in another, and which was the stronger… — Kamala Markandaya Copy Share Image
“What infinite heart's-ease Must kings neglect, that private men enjoy! And what have kings, that privates have not too, Save ceremony, save… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I've no desire to hang around with a bunch of upper-class delinquents, do twenty minutes' work and then spend the rest of… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
The nobility danced for the sake of social grace, to exhibit their finery...peasants danced to make themselves happy, to escape the routine… — Jamake Highwater Copy Share Image
... I have always fallen for ads. The sweetheart of J. Walter Thompson, I have a peasant-like belief in whatever miracle they… — Cornelia Otis Skinner Copy Share Image
I marvel that whereas the ambitious dreams of my self, Caesar, and Alexander should have vanished into thin air, a Judean peasant-Jesus-s… — Napoleon Bonaparte 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
I think that what's so interesting about her is that she took to an extreme her embrace of peasant life even though… — Tom Jaine Copy Share Image
Oh blessed a thousand times the peasant who is born, eats and dies without anybody bothering about his affairs. — Giuseppe Verdi Copy Share Image
Who knows better than a peasant farmer the agricultural conditions in his country or region? It is not always necessary to send… — Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan Copy Share Image
The more I know, the more nearly is my faith that of the Breton peasant. Could I but know all I would… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
Royce Westmoreland stared at him with biting scorn. "I despise hypocrisy, particularly when it is coated with holiness." "May I ask for… — Judith McNaught Copy Share Image
Life in the country teaches one that the really stimulating things are the quiet, natural things, and the really wearisome things are… — Beverley Nichols Copy Share Image
