Farmer Proverbs - page 2

If hunger forces a farmer in a particular year to eat both his yam tubers and the seed-yams, the succeeding years would still be worse because he would have no yams to eat and none to plant. (Nigerian Proverb)
A man too busy to take care of his health is like a farmer too lazy to plant his field. View proverb
Icelandic Proverb
When the ripened ears are full and fall over, as if in sleep, the farmer awakens, that is to say, he begins the harvest. View proverb
Sicilian Proverb
Neither the baskets of the farmer nor the baskets of the abbey. View proverb
Sicilian Proverb
A warrior dies in battle; a mountain climber on the rocks, but a farmer dies of old age. View proverb
New Zealander Proverb
What the farmer doesn't recognize, he doesn't eat. View proverb
Dutch Proverb
The field should be poorer than the farmer. View proverb
Latin Proverb
Hope sustains the farmer. View proverb
Latin Proverb
June damp and warm does the farmer no harm. View proverb
Traditional Proverb
One who carries a pot of honey doesn't envy the sugarcane farmer. View proverb
African Proverb
The farmer feeds them all. (Albanian Proverb)
Sleeping farmer gets a dreaming farmhand. View proverb
Swedish Proverb
The educated man precedes the farmer. But when the rice begins to run short, it's the farmer who comes first. View proverb
Vietnamese Proverb
A farmer should not ride the king's horse. View proverb
Yiddish Proverb
Handsome cats and fat dung heaps are the sign of a good farmer. View proverb
French Proverb