32 Proverbs about Peasant
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The pope eats peasants, gulps gentlemen, and voids monks.2.
There is no occasion for priests to marry, while peasants have wives.3.
When the calf is stolen, the peasant mends the stall.4.
A peasant between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.5.
A peasant will stand on the top of a hill for a very long time with his mouth open before a roast duck will fly in.6.
Be a custom good or bad, a peasant will have it continue in force.7.
Set a peasant on horseback, and he forgets both God and man.8.
When a peasant gets rich, he knows neither relations nor friends.9.
"I am a judge of cresses," said the peasant, as he was eating hemlock.10.
It is good to be priest at Easter, child in Lent, peasant at Christmas, and foal in harvest-time.11.
The priest to his book, the peasant to his plough.12.
When thieves fall out the peasant recovers his goods.13.
An ennobled peasant does not know his own father.14.
It is easier to make a lady of a peasant-girl than a peasant-girl of a lady.15.
When gnats swarm in January, the peasant becomes a beggar.16.
Every peasant is proud of the pond in his village because from it he measures the sea.17.
If the thunder is not loud, the peasant forgets to cross himself.18.
The peasant will not cross himself before it begins to thunder.19.
He who would cheat a peasant, must take one with him.20.
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