Folklore

Right words said by the forefathers folklore: proverbs and old sayings, traditions and superstitions, spells and incantations, traditional songs, riddles, carols.


Happiness is to hold flowers in both hands.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about happiness

There are 3 simple rules in life:
- don't promise when you're happy,
- don't answer when you're nervous,
- don't decide when you're angry.

Proverbs and old sayings British about life, rules, promise, happiness

Man's law changes with his understanding of man. Only the laws of the spirit remain always the same.

Proverbs and old sayings Croatian about spirit, law, man

Who came back from the grave and told the story?

Proverbs and old sayings Tunisian

Force without forecast is to little avail.

Proverbs and old sayings about force, police

When a blind man carries a lame man, both go forward.

Proverbs and old sayings Swedish about blind, man

When we ask a favour, we say, Madam; when we obtain it, what we please.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

A shoemaker's wife and a smith's mare are always the worst shod.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about wife

It will be an ill web to bleitch.

Proverbs and old sayings

If you throw nettles into your neighbors garden you will find them growing in your own.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about garden

What you plant, that you will harvest.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian

A word and a blow.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about word

Together in good and bad times.

Proverbs and old sayings about bad luck, bad, good, good luck

The prickly branches of the palm tree do not show preference even to friends.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan

He has given the hen for the egg.

Proverbs and old sayings German

Fools are more useful to the wise than wise are to fools.

Proverbs and old sayings French

'Twixt the word and the deed there's a long step.

Proverbs and old sayings French about word

What your glass tells you, will not be told by counsel.

Proverbs and old sayings English about moral

It is pride, not nature, that craves much.

Proverbs and old sayings English about proudness, nature

He loses least in a quarrel who keeps his tongue in cheek.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

Traditional Irish Curse

Spells and incantations Irish

Traditional Wexford Curse

Spells and incantations British

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

As porridge benefits those who heat and eat it, so does a child benefit those that rear it.

Proverbs and old sayings about children

If you are a friend of the captain, you can wipe your hands on the sail.

Proverbs and old sayings

You can take a monkey out of the bush, but you cant take the bush of a monkey.

Proverbs and old sayings

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

Large demands on oneself and little demands on others keep resentment at bay.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance.

Proverbs and old sayings about dance, rain

You may hide the fire, but what about the smoke?

Proverbs and old sayings about smoke, fire, fire brigade

A home without a woman is like a barn without cattle.

Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian about home, woman

Even a pigeon has a pussy

Proverbs and old sayings Finnish

Death has no modesty.

Proverbs and old sayings Zulu about death, modesty

Excuses are like assholes, everyone has one, and they all stink.

Proverbs and old sayings Australian

History is constantly teaching, but it does not find many pupils.

Proverbs and old sayings Australian about history, teaching

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Proverbs and old sayings Australian about ability, beauty, old, olderness

A marriage is a procession in which the cross goes first.

Proverbs and old sayings Australian about marriage

God gives the wheat, He doesn't bake the bread.

Proverbs and old sayings Australian about god

Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love; and then we return home.

Proverbs and old sayings Australian about purpose, home, love

Don't blow your own trumpet.

Proverbs and old sayings Australian

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

The more you know, the less you need.

Proverbs and old sayings Australian about need

Keep your eyes on the sun and you will not see the shadows.

Proverbs and old sayings Australian about sun, eyes

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