Folklore
Right words said by the forefathers folklore: proverbs and old sayings, traditions and superstitions, spells and incantations, traditional songs, riddles, carols.Folklore, Categories
Every person admires his own character.
Proverbs and old sayings Turkish
A pear will fall to its root.
Proverbs and old sayings Turkish
The best way to solve a problem is to attack the cause of it.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish
The mill gains by gong, and not by standing still.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish
Even though chickens don't wash, their eggs are still white.
Proverbs and old sayings
The biggest rogue cries loudest out.
Proverbs and old sayings Scottish
The Tsar has three hands but only one ear.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian
Give a grateful man more than he asks.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese
A braggart is recognized by his headgear.
Proverbs and old sayings
In chatter a river, in understanding but a single drop.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin
When fortune deserts us, our friends are nowhere.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin
When ashes cole darg sleep in dey.
Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican
He who knows only few things, has little to forget.
Proverbs and old sayings Icelandic
People hate what they do not understand.
Proverbs and old sayings
A priest blesses his own bread first.
Proverbs and old sayings Greek
Better a good hanging than a bad marriage.
Proverbs and old sayings German
My shirt is closer to me than my cloak.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch
Half a word to the wise is enough.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch
Where two women rule a hearth-fire, the thatch may burn with the sparks flying.
Proverbs and old sayings
Night is the mother of advice.
Proverbs and old sayings
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
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
A centipede is not crippled by the loss of one limb.
Proverbs and old sayings West African
As porridge benefits those who heat and eat it, so does a child benefit those that rear it.
Proverbs and old sayings about children
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
Even a pigeon has a pussy
Proverbs and old sayings Finnish
Death has no modesty.
Proverbs and old sayings Zulu about death
I'm not fragile like a flower;
I'm fragile like a bomb.
Proverbs and old sayings English
Lesson: Don't lose your pen
Proverbs and old sayings American about teaching, depression, marriage, food, children, work, money, death
What is the center of gravity?
The letter V.
Riddles
It's better to keep what little you have, than to risk it for something more.
Proverbs and old sayings American about risk
A journey of a thousand miles began with a single step.
Riddles
Death has no modesty.
Proverbs and old sayings Zulu about death
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
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, fame, air, name, beauty, sky, light, 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
It's better to keep what little you have, than to risk it for something more.
Proverbs and old sayings American about risk
When one dog barks another will join it.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian
What one knows it is sometimes useful to forget.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin
Trouble rides a fast horse.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about fasting
The tallest blade of grass is the first to be cut by the scythe.
Proverbs and old sayings Chechen
The right man comes at the right time.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about rightness, time, man
The morning is wiser than the evening.
Proverbs and old sayings Czech
The Devil looks after his own
Proverbs and old sayings German about devil, old, olderness
The comforter's head never aches.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about heads
