Last folklore

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

Honeyed speech often conceals poison and gall.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

He that touches pitch shall be defiled.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

It is easy for someone to talk about fasting when he has a full belly.

Proverbs and old sayings Croatian about fasting

Had you known what bees eat, you would not have tasted the honey.

Proverbs and old sayings

He who has sheep has fleeces.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

You cannot break through a wall with your forehead.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian

The house sweeper's buttock is never at one direction.

Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian about home, house

It's the eye that eats.

Proverbs and old sayings Moroccan

The hypocrite is known by his actions, not by his clothes.

Proverbs and old sayings Mexican about clothes

Youth is a folly; maturity, a struggle; old age a remorse.

Proverbs and old sayings Mexican about fight, olderness, youth, age, old

A mouse will put the finishing stroke to a castle wall.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

Where the hedge is low every one will cross it.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

The flatterer's throat is an open sepulchre.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

He is not happy who knows it not.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about happiness

A spoiled son becomes a gambler, while a spoiled daughter becomes a harlot.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian

When God gives hard bread he gives sharp teeth.

Proverbs and old sayings German about god

Consult with your pillow.

Proverbs and old sayings German

Nothing equals the joy of the drinker, except the joy of the wine in being drunk.

Proverbs and old sayings French about joy, being, wine, nothing

We know the worth of a thing when we have lost it.

Proverbs and old sayings French about things

Fair is he that comes, but fairer he that brings.

Proverbs and old sayings French