Quotes of Peasant - somelinesforyou

“ But the peasants — how do the peasants die? ”

- Leo Tolstoy

“ The master's eye is the best fertilizer. ”

- Pliny the Elder

“ The first farmer was the first man. All historic nobility rests on the possession and use of land. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ The land too poor for any other crop, is best for raising men. ”

- R. Pocock

“ Sowing is not as difficult as reaping. ”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“ No one hates his job so heartily as a farmer. ”

- H. L. Mencken

“ Farmers only worry during the growing season, but towns' people worry all the time. ”

- Edgar Watson Howe

“ Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus. ”

- Elwyn Brooks White

“ When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization. ”

- Daniel Webster

“ The farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything at retail, sells everything at wholesale, and pays the freight both ways. ”

- John F. Kennedy

“ Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from the corn field. ”

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

“ You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot. ”

- Stanley Kubrick

“ He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home. ”

- Johann von Goethe

“ The farmer works the soil. The agriculturalist works the farmer. ”

- Eugene F. Ware

“ There have been tens of thousands of suicides by farmers in the country, and the government wants to dispute what a suicide is, who a farmer is. ”

- Arundhati Roy

“ I don't think we would be. I think it'd be scientists and farmers and such. ”

- Nicolas Cage

“ This is a very serious matter — that you have Syrian involvement in the assassination of the former prime minister Rafiq Hariri. ”

- Condoleezza Rice

“ Parity is for farmers. ”

- Seymoure Cray

“ There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age. ”

- Bill Bryson

“ There is no gilding of setting sun or glamour of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers' wives. ”

- Hamlin Garland

“ A guy like John Givens, who sells at farmers markets, that's the way to go. ”

- Scott Garrett

“ Our farmers round, well pleased with constant gain, like other farmers, flourish and complain. ”

- George Crabbe

“ Like a gardener I believe what goes down must come up. ”

- Lynwood L. Giacomini

“ Life on a farm is a school of patience; you can't hurry the crops or make an ox in two days. ”

- Henri Alain

“ It is thus with farming, if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work. ”

- Cato the Elder

“ Farmers are philosophical. They have learned that it is less wearing to shrug than to beat their breasts. ”

- Ruth Stout

“ I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly. ”

- Michel de Montaigne

“ I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he cannot have a chicken in his pot every Sunday. ”

- King Henry IV

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

- John Updike
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