Famous Proverbs
46 Proverbs about Peas / Page 2
11. Be a custom good or bad, a peasant will have it continue in force.
12. Set a peasant on horseback, and he forgets both God and man.
13. When a peasant gets rich, he knows neither relations nor friends.
14. The partridge loves peas, but not those that go into the pot with it.
15. He who sows peas on the highway does not get all the pods into his barn.
16. "I am a judge of cresses," said the peasant, as he was eating hemlock.
17. It is good to be priest at Easter, child in Lent, peasant at Christmas, and foal in harvest-time.
18. The priest to his book, the peasant to his plough.
19. When thieves fall out the peasant recovers his goods.
20. An ennobled peasant does not know his own father.