OBSESSED, p.p. Vexed by an evil spirit, like the Gadarene swine and other critics. Obsession was once more common than it is now. Arasthus tells of a peasant who was occupied by a different devil for every day in the week, and on Sundays by two. They were...
Ambrose Bierce
[on actress Gina Lollobrigida] Gina`s personality is limited. She is good playing a peasant but is incapable of playing a lady. That said, I don`t think she`s positively mad about me. Because I`m bigger than she? It`s possible. Who knows?
Sophia Loren
Not much, I`m sorry to say, because my father passed away when I was very young. I was eleven, and my mother was a simple, uneducated peasant.
Allison Barber
Epictetus was a peasant child born about 50 A.D. who grew up to be a well-known Stoic philosopher, ... In modern buzz-word speak, he was the inventor of `What people think of me is none of my business.` So I got really hooked on him.
Rodney Crowell
A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but.
Alicia Hollowell
He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
