Folklore
Right words said by the forefathers folklore: proverbs and old sayings, traditions and superstitions, spells and incantations, traditional songs, riddles, carols.Folklore, Categories
Better ten times ill than one time dead.
Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish
Who arrays himself in other men's garments is stripped on the highway.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish
If you don't have money, you're not worth listening to.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian
Flowers in May and fruiting in June.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian
A cart horse doesn't last long.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian
For a drunken one a sea is knee-deep, and a puddle - ears-deep.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian
There is no repentance after death.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian
When the head aches all the body is the worse.
Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian
A dog on the run is safely kicked.
Proverbs and old sayings Moroccan
What is lighter than a feather? Dust. What lighter than dust? Wind. What lighter than the wind? A harlot. What lighter than a harlot? Nothing.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin
Unity is strength.
Proverbs and old sayings
One written word is worth a thousand pieces of gold.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese
If the blind lead the blind, both fall into the ditch.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian
Who accepts from another sells his freedom.
Proverbs and old sayings German
Mirth is the sugar of life.
Proverbs and old sayings German
To a rogue a rogue and a half.
Proverbs and old sayings French
Who is angry with one is angry with the other.
Proverbs and old sayings Estonian
Have you any Spanish? (Meaning, Have you got any money? )
Proverbs and old sayings English
There's many a good tune played on an old fiddle.
Proverbs and old sayings English
He who feeds the hen out to have the egg.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish
What grows when it eats, but dies when it drinks?
Fire.
Riddles British about fire, fire brigade
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 British about being, stars, night, day
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 Romanian
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 British
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 Chinese
What is always before you, yet you can never see it?
Your future.
Riddles British about future
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
Martisor - the celebration of spring
Traditions and superstitions Romanian about spring, day, symbol, beginning, holidays, tradition, victory, gifts, old, joy
What is the angriest kind of wind?
A crosswind.
Riddles British
What has no beginning, end or middle and touches every continent?
The ocean
Riddles British about beginning, end
The wise man sits on the hole in his carpet.
Proverbs and old sayings Persian about man
The sun won't stay behind the cloud forever.
Proverbs and old sayings Armenian about sun
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 Chinese
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 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
Some people are masters of money, and some its slaves.
Proverbs and old sayings Chechen about money, nation
