Proverbs and old sayings, page 1056

43574 proverbs and old sayings

Poverty is no disgrace, but neither do you have to take pride in it.

Proverbs and old sayings about proudness, poverty

Eat vegetables and fear no creditors, rather than eat duck and hide.

Proverbs and old sayings about fear

Marry for money, my little sonny, a rich man's joke is always funny.

Proverbs and old sayings about joke, wealth, money, man

An old man in the house is a burden, but an old woman is a treasure.

Proverbs and old sayings about burden, treasure, home, house, woman, old, olderness, man

Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind.

Proverbs and old sayings about science, religion, blind

A wise son makes his father happy; a foolish one grieves his mother.

Proverbs and old sayings about happiness, mother

The cure for anxiety about the future is not nostalgia for the past.

Proverbs and old sayings about melancholia, future, past

Whoever can protest against a wrong, and does not, will be punished.

Proverbs and old sayings about bad

If everyone cleaned his own doorstep, all the streets would be clean.

Proverbs and old sayings

Three rebel against the light: the thief, the adulterer, and the bat.

Proverbs and old sayings about thieves, light

The thief who has no opportunity to steal thinks he is an honest man.

Proverbs and old sayings about chance, thieves, man

Love blinds the eyes to faults, and hatred blinds the eyes to virtues.

Proverbs and old sayings about eyes, love

Just as people's faces are different, so are their opinions different.

Proverbs and old sayings about people

If you want to control your soul, hand it as a gift to your intellect.

Proverbs and old sayings about gifts, soul

A pointed proverb is like a diamond: it emits light, and it also cuts.

Proverbs and old sayings about light

If lending were a good idea, then the husband would lend out his wife.

Proverbs and old sayings about idea, husband, wife, good, good luck

An unlucky man falls on straw, but splits his nose from a hidden stone.

Proverbs and old sayings about man

Night was created so that we might consider what we did during the day.

Proverbs and old sayings about night, day

Do not speak of secret matters in a field that is full of little hills.

Proverbs and old sayings about secret

Who seeks more than he needs hinders himself from enjoying what he has.

Proverbs and old sayings