Folklore
Right words said by the forefathers folklore: proverbs and old sayings, traditions and superstitions, spells and incantations, traditional songs, riddles, carols.Christmas carols
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Happiness is to hold flowers in both hands.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about happiness
There are 3 simple rules in life:
- don't promise when you're happy,
- don't answer when you're nervous,
- don't decide when you're angry.
Proverbs and old sayings British about life, rules, promise, happiness
Man's law changes with his understanding of man. Only the laws of the spirit remain always the same.
Proverbs and old sayings Croatian about spirit, law, man
Who came back from the grave and told the story?
Proverbs and old sayings Tunisian
Force without forecast is to little avail.
Proverbs and old sayings about force, police
When a blind man carries a lame man, both go forward.
Proverbs and old sayings Swedish about blind, man
When we ask a favour, we say, Madam; when we obtain it, what we please.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish
A shoemaker's wife and a smith's mare are always the worst shod.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about wife
It will be an ill web to bleitch.
Proverbs and old sayings
If you throw nettles into your neighbors garden you will find them growing in your own.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian about garden
What you plant, that you will harvest.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian
A word and a blow.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about word
Together in good and bad times.
Proverbs and old sayings about bad luck, bad, good, good luck
The prickly branches of the palm tree do not show preference even to friends.
Proverbs and old sayings Afghan
He has given the hen for the egg.
Proverbs and old sayings German
Fools are more useful to the wise than wise are to fools.
Proverbs and old sayings French
'Twixt the word and the deed there's a long step.
Proverbs and old sayings French about word
What your glass tells you, will not be told by counsel.
Proverbs and old sayings English about moral
It is pride, not nature, that craves much.
Proverbs and old sayings English about proudness, nature
He loses least in a quarrel who keeps his tongue in cheek.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish
What grows when it eats, but dies when it drinks?
Fire.
Riddles
If the pills were pleasant, they would not want gilding.
Proverbs and old sayings American
A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about man
At night they come without being fetched,
And by day they are lost without being stolen.
Stars
Riddles
What lives on its own substance and dies when it devours itself?
Candle
Riddles
The ant shall never crawl on its knees.
Proverbs and old sayings
Shameful eats the bone.
Proverbs and old sayings Romanian
It has a crown, but is is not a king, it has roots, but is not a plant. (The tooth)
Riddles
As porridge benefits those who heat and eat it, so does a child benefit those that rear it.
Proverbs and old sayings about children
If you are a friend of the captain, you can wipe your hands on the sail.
Proverbs and old sayings
You can take a monkey out of the bush, but you cant take the bush of a monkey.
Proverbs and old sayings
Wait for the night before saying that the day has been beautiful.
Proverbs and old sayings Bengali about night, day
A cheerful wife is a joy of life.
Proverbs and old sayings British about joy, wife, life
Large demands on oneself and little demands on others keep resentment at bay.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese
Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance.
Proverbs and old sayings about dance, rain
You may hide the fire, but what about the smoke?
Proverbs and old sayings about smoke, fire, fire brigade
A home without a woman is like a barn without cattle.
Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian about home, woman
Death has no modesty.
Proverbs and old sayings Zulu about death, modesty
Excuses are like assholes, everyone has one, and they all stink.
Proverbs and old sayings Australian
History is constantly teaching, but it does not find many pupils.
Proverbs and old sayings Australian about history, teaching
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
Proverbs and old sayings Australian about ability, beauty, old, olderness
A marriage is a procession in which the cross goes first.
Proverbs and old sayings Australian about marriage
God gives the wheat, He doesn't bake the bread.
Proverbs and old sayings Australian about god
Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love; and then we return home.
Proverbs and old sayings Australian about purpose, home, love
Don't blow your own trumpet.
Proverbs and old sayings Australian
It is better to forgive the quilty one than to punish the innocent.
Proverbs and old sayings Romanian
You will never be loved if you think only of you.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian
All is fair in love and war
Proverbs and old sayings British about war, love, old, olderness
A handful of gold is a heart of iron.
Proverbs and old sayings American about heart
A journey of a thousand miles began with a single step.
Riddles
The more you know, the less you need.
Proverbs and old sayings Australian about need
Keep your eyes on the sun and you will not see the shadows.
Proverbs and old sayings Australian about sun, eyes
As lately we watched
As lately we watch'd o'er our fields thro' the night,
A star there was seen of such glorious light.
All thro' the night, angels did sing,
Carols so sweet of the birth of a King.
A King of such beauty was ne'er...
Proverbs and old sayings American about earth, night, celebrity, fame, air, name, beauty, light, sky, mother
It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.
Proverbs and old sayings American
It's always darkest before the dawn.
Proverbs and old sayings American
The enemy of my enemy is my friend
Proverbs and old sayings American about enemies
Be yourself in every situation.
Proverbs and old sayings American
