A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but.
John Berger
All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.
Plato
Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.
John Updike
For an Italian peasant a telegram from anywhere is a wondrous thing; and a cable from the terrestrial paradise of America is not lightly to be disregarded.
Howard K. Smith
He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I am a peasant from the Auvergne. I want to keep my farm, and I want to keep France. Nothing else matters now.
Pierre Laval
I mean, my people were very, very simple. They were peasant people, you know?
James Earl Jones
I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he cannot have a chicken in his pot every Sunday.
Henry IV
Remember the valiant Iraqi peasant and how he shot down an American Apache with an old weapon.
Saddam Hussein
Scratch a Russian, and you'll find a peasant.
Milla Jovovich
That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
Woodrow Wilson
The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world as a duchess sees it, and anyway a duchess would be nothing if the earth was not there as the peasant sees it.
Gertrude Stein
The poor peasant here hives under conditions quite different from those of Russia. Though often terrible, they are not as appalling as they were there.
Herman Gorter
There is but one stage for the peasant and the actor.
Henry David Thoreau
They eat the dainty food of famous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes, mostly composed of garlic and tomatoes, or fisherman's octopus and shrimps, fried in heavily scented olive oil on a little deserted beach.
Luigi Barzini
They're thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperous farmer and then he'll learn all that is necessary for him to know.
Nikolai Gogol
What motivated me? My mother. My mother was an immigrant woman, a peasant woman, struggled all her life, worked in the garment center.
Al Lewis
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