Folklore
Right words said by the forefathers folklore: proverbs and old sayings, traditions and superstitions, spells and incantations, traditional songs, riddles, carols.Folklore, Categories
One God and so many enemies.
Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish
It isn't the whistle that pulls the train.
Proverbs and old sayings
He that speaks without care shall remember with sorrow.
Proverbs and old sayings Turkish
A spur in the head is worth two in the heel.
Proverbs and old sayings
Sailors have a port in every storm.
Proverbs and old sayings
I suspected this might happen, said the one that was kicked out.
Proverbs and old sayings Swedish
If you want to thrash your wife, ask her for a drink of water in the sun.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish
He is a fool who marries an old woman without teeth.
Proverbs and old sayings
You want a grumpy dog and a lively horse.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian
As you treat me, so I'll treat you.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian
This bolt came never out of your bag.
Proverbs and old sayings
Make peace with people; wage war with your sins.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian
He who has only one enemy, meets him everywhere.
Proverbs and old sayings Persian
A triple rope is not easily broken.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin
Don't look for more honor than your learning merits.
Proverbs and old sayings Jewish
Never want while your neighbor has it.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian
One need not throw out the child with the bathwater.
Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian
Time heals old pain, while it creates new ones.
Proverbs and old sayings
God never sends mouths but he sends meat.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish
Even a leaf does not flutter on the tree without the will of god.
Proverbs and old sayings Cuban
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
As porridge benefits those who heat and eat it, so does a child benefit those that rear it.
Proverbs and old sayings about children
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
The frog wanted to be as big as the elephant, and burst.
Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian
What is the angriest kind of wind?
A crosswind.
Riddles
What has no beginning, end or middle and touches every continent?
The ocean
Riddles
The wise man sits on the hole in his carpet.
Proverbs and old sayings Persian about man
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
