Proverbs and old sayings, page 1519

43575 proverbs and old sayings

The fish sees the bait not the hook; a man sees not the danger -- only the profit.

Proverbs and old sayings Mongolian about danger, fishing, man

Greed keeps men forever poor, even the abundance of this world will not make them rich.

Proverbs and old sayings Mongolian about greed, wealth, world, man

Wise men talk about ideas, intellectuals about facts, and the ordinary man talks about what he eats.

Proverbs and old sayings Mongolian about man

In a good word there are three winters' warmth; in one malicious word there is pain for six frosty months.

Proverbs and old sayings Mongolian about word, pain, good, good luck

The supreme treasure is knowledge, the middle treasure is children, and the lowest treasure is material wealth.

Proverbs and old sayings Mongolian about treasure, knowledge, wealth, children

Winter finds out what summer lays up.

Proverbs and old sayings

Winter either bites with its teeth or lashes with its tail.

Proverbs and old sayings

Hypocrisy is the mother of peace.

Proverbs and old sayings about hypocrisy, peace, mother

If you have the moon, ignore the stars.

Proverbs and old sayings about celebrity, stars, moon, contentment

If a person is away, his right is away.

Proverbs and old sayings about rightness, people

He who fears something gives it power over him.

Proverbs and old sayings about power

A forest would want to be burned by its own wood.

Proverbs and old sayings

Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother.

Proverbs and old sayings about eyes, mother

He who is afraid of a thing gives it power over him.

Proverbs and old sayings about power, things

One lie can fill a sack; a second will empty it again.

Proverbs and old sayings about lie

Repentance for silence is better than repentance for speaking.

Proverbs and old sayings about silence

It's easy to say May Allah roast the lion's mother, when the lion isn't there.

Proverbs and old sayings about mother

Men have thought about their marriage a whole year long -- and it lasts but one night.

Proverbs and old sayings about thinking, marriage, night, man

Time wounds all heels.

Proverbs and old sayings Moroccan about time

It's the eye that eats.

Proverbs and old sayings Moroccan