Proverbs and old sayings, page 1691

43574 proverbs and old sayings

A red beard and a black head, catch him with a good trick and take him dead.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about magic, trap, heads, good, good luck

Three things drive a man out of his house - smoke, rain and a scolding wife.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about smoke, rain, wife, things, home, house, man

A sluggard takes an hundred steps because he would not take one in due time.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about time

One father can support ten children; ten children cannot support one father.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about children

Plough deep, while sluggards sleep; and you shall have corn to sell and keep.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about commerce, sleep, contentment

The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about children

When you are an anvil, hold you still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about contentment

Better an ugly duckling from your own village than a beauty from foreign parts.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about beauty

If you lie upon roses when you're young, you'll lie upon thorns when you're old.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about lie, contentment, old, olderness

Without other people's companionship, even paradise would be an unlikable place.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about paradise, people

He that deceives me once, shame fall him; if he deceives me twice, shame fall me.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about shame, fall

You will catch more flies with a spoonful of honey than with a gallon of vinegar.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about trap, contentment

Always taking Out of the meal-tub, and never putting in, soon comes to the bottom.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian

A spaniel, a woman, and a walnut-tree, the more they're beaten the better they be.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about woman

Like the gardener's dog, that neither eats cabbages himself, nor lets anybody else.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian

One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian

We carry our neighbours' failings in sight; we throw our own crimes over our shoulders.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about criminals

Children when they are little make parents fools, when they are great they make them mad.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about parents, children

Who will in time present pleasure refrain, shall in time to come the more pleasure obtain.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about pleasure, present, time

Whether the pitcher strikes the stone, or the stone the pitcher, it is bad for the pitcher.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about bad luck, bad