Proverbs and old sayings, page 1500

43575 proverbs and old sayings

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.

Proverbs and old sayings