Proverbs and old sayings, page 1364

43575 proverbs and old sayings

If skill could be gained by watching, every dog would become a butcher.

Proverbs and old sayings

Work as if you were to live forever; live as if you were to die tomorrow.

Proverbs and old sayings about work, death, contentment

It is better to be naked in your place than to be a pasha with strangers.

Proverbs and old sayings

A neighbor's hen looks as big as a goose, and his wife as young as a girl.

Proverbs and old sayings about wife

A home without guests, a village without shepherds, both are hopeless indeed.

Proverbs and old sayings about home

It is easier to make a camel jump a ditch than to make a fool listen to reason.

Proverbs and old sayings about reason

When the money starts to glitter and clink, even a Mullah will leave the mosque.

Proverbs and old sayings about money

It is up to the people to feed the dogs; it's up to the Cardias to feed the Turks.

Proverbs and old sayings about people

A wise man remembers his friends at all times; a fool, only when he has need of them.

Proverbs and old sayings about need, man

A hundred men can sit together quietly but when two dogs get together there will be a fight.

Proverbs and old sayings about fight, man

To have a hut built from mud here is better than a palace made from gold and marble on the Arabian Gulf.

Proverbs and old sayings

Time is like a dagger; if you don't cut with it, it cuts you. Go ahead and cut. Be quick before it cuts you.

Proverbs and old sayings about time, contentment

A girl without a mother is like a mountain with no paths; a girl without a father is like a mountain with no streams.

Proverbs and old sayings about mother

Deal with your friends as if they will become your enemies tomorrow, and deal with your enemies as if they will become your friends tomorrow.

Proverbs and old sayings about enemies

Mi taku oyasin.

Proverbs and old sayings

A man or woman with many children has many homes.

Proverbs and old sayings about children, woman, man

When man moves away from nature his heart becomes hard.

Proverbs and old sayings about nature, heart, man

The ones that matter most are the children. they are the true human beings.

Proverbs and old sayings about human imperfections, children

The great spirit is not perfect: it has a good side and a bad side. sometimes the bad side gives us more knowledge than the good side.

Proverbs and old sayings about perfection, spirit, bad luck, knowledge, bad, good, good luck

Rags to riches to rags.

Proverbs and old sayings about wealth