Proverbs and old sayings, page 1739

43574 proverbs and old sayings

If the fool has a hunchback no one remarks about it; if a wise man has a boil everybody talks about it.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about man

The sluggard will not plough by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about reason, nothing

There was a time they loved an accordionist, and now the time has come where they love a tractor driver.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about time, love

Plan your life as though you were going to live forever, but live today as if you were going to die tomorrow.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about death, life, contentment

If you do not strike back at him who hits you, there is no way for him to find out whether you also have hands.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about contentment

The sat one doesn't understand the hungry one: for one the soup is too thin, for the other - the pearls are too small.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian

A wife should be as humble as a lamb, busy as a bee, as beautiful as a bird of paradise and faithful as a turtle dove.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about paradise, wife

If you go to war pray once; if you go on a sea journey pray twice; but pray three times when you are going to be married.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about pray, war, contentment

People helping one another can bring an elephant into the house.

Proverbs and old sayings Rwandan about home, house, people

A girl only gets pregnant once.

Proverbs and old sayings Rwandan

The rich man never dances badly.

Proverbs and old sayings Rwandan about wealth, man

Only God generates, man only educates.

Proverbs and old sayings Rwandan about god, man

In a fiddler's house, all are dancers.

Proverbs and old sayings Rwandan about home, house

You set the trap when the rat has gone.

Proverbs and old sayings Rwandan about trap, contentment

If you shake a dog, you shake his owner.

Proverbs and old sayings Rwandan about contentment

A man's heart is not a sack open to all.

Proverbs and old sayings Rwandan about heart, man

Hens keep quiet when the cock is around.

Proverbs and old sayings Rwandan about quiet

Pregnancy and fire cannot be kept secret.

Proverbs and old sayings Rwandan about secret, fire, fire brigade

The most extensive land is the human belly.

Proverbs and old sayings Rwandan about human imperfections

When the leopard is away, his cubs are eaten.

Proverbs and old sayings Rwandan