Proverbs and old sayings, page 1480

43575 proverbs and old sayings

Disgraced like a man whose own pet bites him.

Proverbs and old sayings about pets, man

Do not scare the birds you are going to shoot.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

Roosters' tail feathers: pretty but always behind.

Proverbs and old sayings

Do not kick away the canoe which helped you to cross the river.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

The lazy man who goes to borrow a spade says, I hope I will not find one.

Proverbs and old sayings about hope, man

You think you are strong like the corn plant, yet the bean vine is already choking you.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

Do not treat your loved one like a swinging door: you are fond of it but you push it back and forth.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

Anger is a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

Proverbs and old sayings Guatemalan about anger

Anger is more hurtful than the injury that caused it.

Proverbs and old sayings Guatemalan about anger

Debts make the thief.

Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about thieves

Sick people are like kings.

Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about people

Only thin dogs become wild.

Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy

Crows are black everywhere.

Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about magic

The child of a rat is a rat.

Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about children

Words go further than bullets.

Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about word

To love the law is to lose money.

Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about law, money, love

Don't praise your wife before a year.

Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about praise, wife

Ants can attack with a grain of rice.

Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about attack

A starving crocodile is never pleasant.

Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy

You can't catch a louse with one finger.

Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about trap, contentment