Proverbs and old sayings, page 1032

43575 proverbs and old sayings

Success is doing what you like and making a living at it.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek about success, contentment

Someone with an unrelenting heart is his own executioner.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek about executioners, heart

From a thorn comes a rose, and from a rose comes a thorn.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek

Neither promise wax to the saint, nor cakes to the child.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek about promise, saints, children

A poor man who takes a rich wife has a ruler, not a wife.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek about wife, wealth, man

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, prepare to die.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek about shame, death, contentment

Nothing will content him who is not content with a little.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek about nothing

The frog wanted to be an ox and swelled up until he burst.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek

A woman prefers a man without money to money without a man.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek about money, woman, man

They throw stones at the walnut trees, but not at the maple.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek

Eat beans for lunch and have no friends at the dinner table.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek

You must keep quiet or say only things that improve silence.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek about quiet, silence, things, contentment

Either remain quiet, or say things that improve the silence.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek about quiet, silence, things

Greeks only agree with each other about going to the toilet.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek

He who eats and drinks with the rich leaves the table hungry.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek about wealth

Those who fight with silver spears are sure of their victory.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek about victory, fight

Eat and drink with your relatives; do business with strangers.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek about affair, drinking

The old age of an eagle is better than the youth of a sparrow.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek about olderness, youth, age, old

Whatever kind of word thou speakest, the like shalt thou bear.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek about word

The grumbling mother-in-law forgets that she once was a bride.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek about law, mother