I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly. Michel de Montaigne
This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there's a layer of people who run everything. But we - we're just peasants. We don't understand what's going on, and we can't do anything. Doris Lessing
There are no bridges in folk songs because the peasants died building them. Eugene Chadbourne
The noblemen's quarrels can be read on the backs of the peasants. Russian Proverb
May waters drench peasants and lords or gentlemen, as many of them as it encounters. Sicilian Proverb
There is no occasion for priests to marry, while peasants have wives. German Proverb