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"Fr., I want there to be no peasant in my realm so poor that he will not have a chicken in his pot every Sunday." »King Henry IV of France
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"If the thunder is not loud, the peasant forgets to cross himself." »Assyrian Proverb
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"He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home." »Johann von Goethe
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"He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home." »Goethe
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"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
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"They eat the dainty food of gamous 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
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"The only difference between a genius and one of common capacity is that the former anticipates and explores what the latter accidentally hits upon; but even the man of genius himself more frequently employs the advantages that chance presents him; it is the lapidary who gives value to the diamond which the peasant has dug up without knowing its value." »Abbe Guillaume Raynal
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"For all the gold and silver stolen and shipped to Spain did not make the Spanish people richer. It gave their kings an edge in the balance of power for a time, a chance to hire more mercenary soldiers for their wars. They ended up losing those wars anyway, and all that was left was a deadly inflation, a starving population, the rich richer, the poor poorer, and a ruined peasant class." »Hans Konig
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