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Right words said by the forefathers folklore: proverbs and old sayings, traditions and superstitions, spells and incantations, traditional songs, riddles, carols.Folklore, Categories
If a person shave you with a razor, do not shave him with broken glass.
Proverbs and old sayings
He who stumbles twice over one stone deserves to break his shins.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish
The keys at the girdle, the dog in the larder.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish
Little bird, little nest.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish
An ugly girl blames the mirror.
Proverbs and old sayings Serbian
The first [cup of vodka] goes as a stake, the second as a falcon, and the third as a little bird.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian
Shame is worse than death.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian
It's better who God helps than who early arouses.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese
If rape is unavoidable, relax and enjoy it.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese
When a net is worn out, it is thrown away on the shore.
Proverbs and old sayings
In every pomegranate a decayed pip is to be found.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin
When the tree is down every one runs to it with a hatchet to cut wood.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian
Ill in kine and worse in beeves.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian
A full sack pricks up its ear.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian
We do not live to eat, but we eat to live.
Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian
When the grandmothers speak, the earth will be healed.
Proverbs and old sayings
He who is late may gnaw the bones.
Proverbs and old sayings Gypsy
Ill got, ill spent.
Proverbs and old sayings German
Money makes money.
Proverbs and old sayings French
If a Dane first has come into the room, more Danes will probably follow.
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
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
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
Poor iron won't make a sharp sword.
Proverbs and old sayings Afghan
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
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
