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
The general of a large army may be defeated, but you cannot defeat the determined mind of a peasant. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Ah, nut-brown partridges! Ah, brilliant pheasants! And ah, ye poachers!--'Tis no sport for peasants. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
I really don’t feel exclusiveMy ambition instead, perhaps because of my peasant-worker background, is to look at the world with others, not… — Ermanno Olmi Copy Share Image
I am the son of peasants and I know what is happening in the villages. That is why I wanted to take… — Gavrilo Princip Copy Share Image
I am the son of poor peasants who came at a very young age to live in Algeria. I only recently saw… — Ahmed Ben Bella Copy Share Image
'Dead peasants insurance' is a term that sounds as if it comes straight out of Monty Python. If only that were true. — John Lanchester 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
Modern abstract art starts in Russia in about 1915 with Malevich, and then the Russian Revolution happens, and eventually all that experimental… — Robert Longo Copy Share Image
Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the signet of its all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore, and called it gold: before… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Dogs are born knowing exactly what they want to do: eat, scratch, roll in disgusting stuff, sniff and squabble with other dogs,… — Jon Katz 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
I can laugh at peasants and townies chained all their lives to a tiny corner of the earth while I roam its… — Glen Cook Copy Share Image
Peasants, who after the liberation of the country became the masters of their lands and their country under the benevolence of Comrade… — Kim Jong-un Copy Share Image
Land ownership in Guatemala is more unequal than anywhere else in Latin America. Roughly 90 percent of Guatemalan farms are too small… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
The poor ignorant fellah [Arabic for peasant] does not worry about politics, but when he is told repeatedly by people in whom… — Chaim Weizmann 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
“...Most peasants never traveled farther than twenty-five miles from the village of their birth. They had strong social ties to their communities,… — Patricia D. Netzley Copy Share Image
Every man feels that perception gives him an invincible belief of the existence of that which he perceives; and that this belief… — Thomas Reid Copy Share Image
But neither Europe nor Africa can show any such desolation as America. The proudest, stubbornest, bitterest peasant of deserted Spain, the most… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
These stupid peasants, who, throughout the world, hold potentates on their thrones, make statesmen illustrious, provide generals with lasting victories, all with… — Stephen Crane Copy Share Image
It is Mind which determines the change of Society, and it was because the mind at work was a Catholic mind that… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
“The stress of farming had far-reaching consequences. It was the foundation of large-scale political and social systems. Sadly, the diligent peasants almost… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Not only in peasant homes, but also in city skyscrapers, there lives alongside the twentieth century, the thirteenth. A hundred million people… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
The people who make reality are angry peasants with old cannon shells wired together, an anti-vehicle device. — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
French cooking is really the result of peasants figuring out how to extract flavor from pedestrian ingredients. So most of the food… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Because in Russia you were able to triumph with the help of a large class of poor peasants, you represent things in… — Herman Gorter Copy Share Image
When you're talking about peasants and children - obviously I've got some experience dealing with children - when you deal with children… — Greg Hardy Copy Share Image
Every teenager in the world feels like that, feels broken or out of place, different somehow, royalty mistakenly born into a family… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Today the large organization is lord and master, and most of its employees have been desensitized much as were the medieval peasants… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
The time will come, when thou shalt lift thine eyes To watch a long-drawn battle in the skies. While aged peasants, too… — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
In war, discipline is superior to strength; but if that discipline is neglected there is no longer any difference between the soldier… — Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus Copy Share Image
Once the will is resolved, one's spirit is strengthened. Even a peasant's will is hard to deny, but a samurai of resolute… — Yoshida Shoin 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
Academic Marxism is a fantasy world, and unctuous compassion-sweepstakes, into which real workers or peasants never penetrate. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
To judge from all Communist papers, magazines and brochures, and from all public assemblies, one might even surmise that a revolt of… — Herman Gorter Copy Share Image
“The peasant is the only species of human being who doesn't like the country and never looks at it.” — Jules Renard Copy Share Image
The humblest peasant is as free in the sight of God as the proudest monarch that ever swayed a sceptre. Liberty is… — Henry Highland Garnet Copy Share Image
The most important thing in my life, its leitmotif, has been the constant and close contacts with working people, with workers and… — Leonid Brezhnev Copy Share Image
I have had affairs that lasted decades and others that lasted for hours. I have loved princesses and peasants. And I suppose… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
![“The poor ignorant fellah [Arabic for peasant] does not worry about politics, but when he is told repeatedly by people in whom he has confidence that his livelihood is in danger of being taken away from him by us, he becomes our mortal enemy. . . The Arab is primitive and believes what he is told.” quote by Chaim Weizmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/75c/chaim-weizmann-27625_believe_the-poor-ignorant-fellah-arabic-for-peas_74345.jpg)
