Proverbs and old sayings, page 1687

43574 proverbs and old sayings

A broken friendship may be soldered, but will never be sound.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about friendship

He dwells far from neighbours that is fain to praise himself.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about praise

He that has but four and spends five, has no need of a purse.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about need

Let an ill man lie in thy straw, and he looks to be thy heir.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about lie, man

Make a pact with the devil until you have crossed the bridge.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about devil, contentment

All's alike at the latter day: a bag of gold and wisp of hay.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about day

He that will not when he may, when he will he shall have nay.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian

One Take it is more worth than two Thou shalt have it.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian

With time and art the leaf of the mulberry-tree becomes satin.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about salary, art, magic, time

None more bare than the shoemaker's wife and the smith's mare.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about wife

The man who takes legal action often loses an ox to win a cat.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about action, man

He that has a house of glass must not throw stones at another.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about home, house

Between promising and performing a man may marry his daughter.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about man

He that has a white horse and a fair wife never wants trouble.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about problems, wife

He that has no honey in his pot, let him have it in his mouth.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian

When a knave is in a plum-tree, he has neither friend nor kin.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian

He that is fed at another's hand may stay long ere he be full.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian

Better be the head of the yeomanry than the tail of the gentry.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about heads

If you are travelling in the blind man's country close one eye.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about country, blind, man, contentment

Honesty may be dear bought, but can never be an ill pennyworth.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about honesty