Proverbs and old sayings, page 1021

43575 proverbs and old sayings

It is only one bad palm tree that spoils the whole lot of palm wine.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about wine, bad luck, bad

The surface of the water is beautiful, but it is no good to sleep on.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about sleep, water, good, good luck

A healthy person who begs for food is an insult to a generous farmer.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about food, people

However high you lift the kid goat, you place it gently on the ground.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about contentment

If two proverbs are not similar, one is not used to explain the other.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan

There is no distinction among the common baskets made of palm branches.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about common sense

If the hunter comes back with mushrooms, don't ask him how his hunt was.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about hunters

Even if the old woman has no teeth, her tiger nuts remain in her own bag.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about woman, old, olderness

When you are rich, you are resented; when you are poor, you are despised.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about wealth, contentment

A child who is to be successful is not reared exclusively on a bed of down.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about children

If the young palm tree wants to stay alive, it grows next to the odum tree.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan

The good wife at her husband's home, the other one is at her parent's home.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about home, husband, wife, good, good luck

Nature gave us two cheeks instead of one to make it easier to eat hot food.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about nature, food

Every one hates the red ant on a kola nut because he cannot eat or sell it.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about commerce

When someone is already approaching, there is no need to say Come here.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about need

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

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan

A woman is like a rat: even if it grows up in your house, it steals from you.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about home, house, woman, contentment

If youthful pride were wealth, then every man would have had it in his lifetime.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about youth, proudness, wealth, man

The chicken also knows when it's morning, but still watches the mouth of the cock.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan

The monkey says there is nothing better than poverty to unlearn man of his conceit.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about poverty, nothing, man