Proverbs and old sayings, page 1688

43574 proverbs and old sayings

Mother-in-law and daughter-in-law are a tempest and hail storm.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about law, mother

No man is born into the world, whose work is not born with him.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about work, world, man

He that waits for dead men's shoes may go long enough barefoot.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about man

He that washes an ass's head loses both his lye and his labour.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about heads

Follow not truth too near the heels, lest it dash out thy teeth.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about truth

The hen that cackles in the evening lays no eggs in the morning.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian

You are like the man that sought his mare, and he riding on her.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about man, contentment

The pitcher goes so often to the well that it is broken at last.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian

When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out of the window.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about poverty, love

One may become the devil's brother in order to cross the bridge.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about order, devil

The poor man turns his cake and another comes and takes it away.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about man

They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about need

When god will punish, he will first take away the understanding.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about god

He came safe from the East Indies, and was drowned in the Thames.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian

The person taking legal action often gives up an ox to win a cat.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about action, people

The master's footsteps fattens the soil, and his foot the ground.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian

A faithful friend is hard to find, remember man and keep in mind.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about mind, man

If more people say you're wrong, don't insist saying you're right.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about bad, rightness, people, contentment

Long and lazy, little and loud; fat and fulsome, pretty and proud.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about proudness

Where the carcase is, there shall the eagles be gathered together.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian