The Routledge Book of World Proverbs
A good farmer takes with force the bread from the earth. (Albanian)
A rich farmer will still carry a basket on his back. (Yiddish)
A son of the field makes the best of soldiers. (Spanish)
He is but a poor farmer, who sows in sand. (Roman)
He that by the plow would thrive, himself must either hold or drive. (Poor Richard)
If a farmer had no hope, he would not sow. (Spanish)
‘I’ll go myself’, and ‘I’ll see to it’, are two good servants on a farm. (Danish)
The bad plowman quarrels with his ox. (Korean)
The best manure is under the farmer’s shoe. (Danish)
The lazy farmer dies with his head on the seed-grain. (Korean)
The poorer the farmer, the greater the boast. (German)
The poorest farmer has the largest potatoes. (German)
The townsfolk see the farmer in a silk shirt and think him lazy. (Unknown)
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