Folklore
Right words said by the forefathers folklore: proverbs and old sayings, traditions and superstitions, spells and incantations, traditional songs, riddles, carols.Folklore, Categories
A good cry lightens the heart.
Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish
He who marries a widow will often have a dead man's head thrown in his dish.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish
A begun turn is half ended.
Proverbs and old sayings Scottish
Better late thrive then never.
Proverbs and old sayings
Neither rhyme nor harmony.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian
Only the soil knows when a young mouse is ill.
Proverbs and old sayings
We never profit by the gifts of the wicked.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin
Sometimes it takes only an hour to get a reputation that lasts for a thousand years.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese
Parents and children teach one another.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese
Too much hurry, and get there tomorrow; take time, get there today.
Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican
Cut off the dog's tail, he remains a dog.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian
I saw you at Lucca, I knew you at Pisa.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian
Love conceals ugliness, and hate sees many faults.
Proverbs and old sayings Irish
Three things show a man's character: his drinking, his pocket, and his anger.
Proverbs and old sayings
Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.
Proverbs and old sayings Greek
Every one thinks that all the bells echo his own thoughts.
Proverbs and old sayings German
What is sport to the cat is death to the mouse.
Proverbs and old sayings German
After honour and state follow envy and hate.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch
The most noble dog can only bark.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch
The person who loves sorrow will always find something to moan about.
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
At night they come without being fetched,
And by day they are lost without being stolen.
Stars
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
A cheerful wife is a joy of life.
Proverbs and old sayings British about joy, wife, life
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
What is always before you, yet you can never see it?
Your future.
Riddles
A handful of gold is a heart of iron.
Proverbs and old sayings American about heart
He who hesitates, regrets.
Proverbs and old sayings Albanian
The frog wanted to be as big as the elephant, and burst.
Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian
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
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
Some people are masters of money, and some its slaves.
Proverbs and old sayings Chechen about money, people
