Proverbs and old sayings, page 1130

43575 proverbs and old sayings

Agriculture is best, enterprise is acceptable, but avoid being on a fixed wage.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about salary, being

If you are up to your knees in pleasure, then you are up to your waist in grief.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about sadness, pleasure, contentment

The dog's tail, even if buried for twelve years, will remain as crooked as ever.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian

When you are in difficulty, go to the house of your friend -- not your sister's.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about difficulties, home, house, contentment

It is easier to cover our feet with sandals than to cover the earth with carpets.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about earth

An adder with its poisonous fangs taken out is nothing more than a piece of rope.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about nothing

A person who misses a chance and the monkey who misses its branch can't be saved.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about chance, people

Most adults are attentive to what someone is doing, but children see beyond that.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about children

Under the mountains is silver and gold, But under the night sky, hunger and cold.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about hunger, sky, night

If you call a lady a slave, she laughs, but if you call a slave a slave, he cries.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about contentment

When a crow is killed by a storm, the fortuneteller says, He died by my curse.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian

If a man from humble beginnings gets rich, he will carry his umbrella at midnight.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about wealth, man

The baby is not yet born, and yet you say that his nose is like his grandfather's.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about contentment

All the water in the sea doesn't even reach the knees of the man who fears not death.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about death, water, man

Speak like a parrot; meditate like a swan; chew like a goat; and bathe like an elephant.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian

The baby has not been born yet, and yet you assert that his nose is like his grandfather's.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about contentment

Be bad to the bad; good to the good; be a flower to other flowers and a thorn to other thorns.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about garden, flowers, bad luck, bad, good, good luck

To sing to the deaf, to talk with the dumb, and to dance for the blind are three foolish things.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about dance, blind, things

You may look up for inspiration or look down in desperation but do not look sideways for information.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about inspiration, contentment

It is better to sit down than to stand, it is better to lie down than to sit, but death is the best of all.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about lie, death