Proverbs and old sayings, page 1363

43575 proverbs and old sayings

Listen a hundred times; ponder a thousand times; speak once.

Proverbs and old sayings

With fortune on your side you can sow salt and harvest grass.

Proverbs and old sayings about wealth, contentment

God has created us brothers but has given us separate purses.

Proverbs and old sayings about god

A visitor comes with ten blessings, eats one, and leaves nine.

Proverbs and old sayings

Nobody knows who is he, even if he is under his father's ears.

Proverbs and old sayings

Whoever digs a pit for his neighbor should dig it his own size.

Proverbs and old sayings

If God didn't like beautiful women, he wouldn't have made them.

Proverbs and old sayings about god

The foreign person is blind and the killed person has no chance.

Proverbs and old sayings about chance, people, blind

If you are an anvil, be patient; if you are a hammer, be strong.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

Do not eat the strangers' bread as this diminishes your stature.

Proverbs and old sayings

It is more difficult to contend with oneself than with the world.

Proverbs and old sayings about world

Wood can only be split with a wedge that is cut from its own tree.

Proverbs and old sayings

When a cat wants to eat her kittens, she says they look like mice.

Proverbs and old sayings

With a mule you have a son, with a son-in-law you only have a mule.

Proverbs and old sayings about law, contentment

When it is spring time, the grass will even grow under a big stone.

Proverbs and old sayings about spring, time

When a bald man dies the mourners give him curly hair as a present.

Proverbs and old sayings about present, man

Expect the worst from your enemy so that you won't be disappointed.

Proverbs and old sayings about enemies, contentment

Whoever is fond of cream should should take the cow around with him.

Proverbs and old sayings

Some will enjoy the honey, others will have to put up with the sting.

Proverbs and old sayings

Whoever speaks evil to you of others will speak evil of you to others.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment