Proverbs and old sayings, page 107

43574 proverbs and old sayings

If you sit with us, you will get like us; if you sit beside a cooking pot, you will get black.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about magic, contentment

You can use salt to prevent meat from rotting, but what will you use to prevent salt from rotting?

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about use, contentment

Whosoever eats bread without first washing his hands, it is as though he had sinned with a harlot.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan

The ungrateful son is a wart on his father's face; to leave it is a blemish, to cut it off is pain.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about pain, face

The ungrateful son is like a wart on his father's face; to leave it there is unsightly, to cut it off is painful.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about face

As long as the beard exists, the world clenches its fists. As long as the pakul hat exists, the world stutters in fits.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about world

In childhood you are palyful, In youth you are lustful In old age you are feeble, So when will you before God be worshipful?

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about childhood, olderness, youth, age, contentment, god, old

The land of marriage has this peculiarity: That strangers are desirous of inhabiting it, while its natural inhabitants would gladly be exiled.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about marriage

Jaybird don't rob his own nest.

Proverbs and old sayings about americans

Hand plow can't make furrows by itself.

Proverbs and old sayings about americans

Flies can't fall in a tight-closed pot.

Proverbs and old sayings about fall, americans

Talkin' 'bout fire doesn't boil the pot.

Proverbs and old sayings about fire, fire brigade, americans

Dog don't get mad when you say he's a dog.

Proverbs and old sayings about americans, contentment

The blacker the berry the sweeter the juice.

Proverbs and old sayings about americans

Romance/ without finance/ don't stand a chance.

Proverbs and old sayings about chance, americans

Old used-to-do-it-this-way don't help none today.

Proverbs and old sayings about help, americans, old, olderness

Rooster makes mo' racket dan de hen w'at lay de aig.

Proverbs and old sayings about americans

Old Satan couldn't get along without plenty of help.

Proverbs and old sayings about devil, help, americans, old, olderness

Tell me whom you love, and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverbs and old sayings about love, contentment, americans

It takes a heap of licks to drive a nail in the dark.

Proverbs and old sayings about dark, americans