If you would grow poor without knowing it, put your helpers to work and go to sleep
Proverbs and old sayings about sleep, work, contentment
Never marry an heiress, unless her father has been hanged. She is sure to be proud.
Proverbs and old sayings about proudness
She's for knitting and sewing and scraping potatoes, and you should be glad to catch the like.
Proverbs and old sayings about trap, contentment
When a man wants a wife, he wants but a wife; But when he has got a wife, he wants a great deal.
Proverbs and old sayings about wife, man
The weaknesses of old age are no fit cause for laughter, since they must be our own portion at the end.
Proverbs and old sayings about laughter, olderness, age, end, old
Ten thousand of the greatest faults in our neighbours is of less consequence than the smallest of our own.
Proverbs and old sayings about consequences
Where there are women there is talk, where there are geese there is keck, where there are tailors there are crabs, where there are carpenters, there are chips.
Proverbs and old sayings
A whale's tooth in a whale's jaw.
Proverbs and old sayings
Land is permanent, man disappears.
Proverbs and old sayings about man
The dancing of Tanerore has begun.
Proverbs and old sayings
The land is a mother that never dies.
Proverbs and old sayings about mother
Desolate darkeness, desolate brightness.
Proverbs and old sayings
My totara sapling so suddenly broken off.
Proverbs and old sayings
When the belly is full, the talk is good.
Proverbs and old sayings about good, good luck
Join those who can join sections of a canoe.
Proverbs and old sayings
The ocean gives and sustain life to the worthy.
Proverbs and old sayings about life
Though my present be small, my love goes with it.
Proverbs and old sayings about present, love
A woman in the house is like a kaka in the forest.
Proverbs and old sayings about home, house, woman
Care for the land, Care for the people, Go forward.
Proverbs and old sayings about people
When a net is worn out, it is thrown away on the shore.