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Farmers are people too.

Proverbs and old sayings Swedish about people

What is the difference between a farmer and a seamstress?

One gathers what he 'sows', the other 'sews' what she gathers.

Riddles

The best of mankind is a farmer; the best food is fruit.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about food

The farmer feeds them all.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans

A farmer on his knees is higher than a gentleman on his legs.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans

Lime and lime without manure makes the farmer rich and the son poor.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about wealth, americans

Schoolmaster, stick to your books; farmer, to your pigs.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about books

The farmer hopes for rain, the walker hopes for sunshine, and the gods hesitate.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about rain

The foot of the farmer manures the field.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

The best manure is under the farmer's shoe.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

When cat and mouse agree, the farmer has no chance.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about chance

When the fox licks his paw let the farmer look after his geese.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

When the cat and the mouse agree the farmer doesn't stand a chance.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about chance

What the farmer doesn't recognize, he doesn't eat.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

There is no better manure than the farmer's foot.

Proverbs and old sayings English

Manure is the farmer's gold.

Proverbs and old sayings Estonian

What the farmer does not know he doesn't eat.

Proverbs and old sayings German

In the village without dogs the farmers walk without sticks.

Proverbs and old sayings Gypsy about gypsies

Two farmers each claimed to own a certain cow. While one pulled on its head and the other pulled on its tail, the cow was milked by the lawyer.

Proverbs and old sayings about heads

A good farmer is know by his crops.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about good, good luck