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It is not the big farmers who reap all the harvest.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

Hope sustains the farmer.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about hope

The field should be poorer than the farmer.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

The field should be poorer than the farmer. [It is useless for a man to attempt farming without capital. ]

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about man

There is no worse devil than a farmer who wants to be a gentleman.

Proverbs and old sayings Lithuanian about devil

The farmer grows the corn, but the bear eats it.

Proverbs and old sayings Nepalese

A farmer does not conclude by the mere look of it that a corn is unripe; he tears it open for examination.

Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian about tears

A farmer does not boast that he has had a good harvest until his stock of yams lasts till the following harvest season.

Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian about season, good, good luck

A farmer who would not work inside the rain and would not work under the sun, would have nothing to harvest at the end of the farming year.

Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian about work, rain, sun, end, nothing

If the farmer is poor then so is the whole country.

Proverbs and old sayings Polish about country

The farmer is a born philosopher, the aristocrat has to learn how.

Proverbs and old sayings Polish

A woman farmer had no trouble, so she bought a piglet.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about woman

If the collective farm is wealthy, the farmer is happy.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about happiness

Neither the baskets of the farmer nor the baskets of the abbey.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

When the ear of corn hangs to the side the farmer watches it with comfort.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

One who selects his hoe is not real farmer.

Proverbs and old sayings about real estate

The farmer is one but those who eat fruits of his labour are many.

Proverbs and old sayings

Manure and diligence makes the farmer rich.

Proverbs and old sayings Swedish about wealth

The farmer should be mightier than his land.

Proverbs and old sayings Swedish

It will always be rotten for me, said the farmer when they ran out of sacrament wine precisely when he wanted to go forward.

Proverbs and old sayings Swedish about wine