Famous Proverbs
32 Proverbs about Peasant
1. 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.