Proverbs and old sayings, page 1924

43574 proverbs and old sayings

The hand that rocks the cradle rules the nation and its destiny.

Proverbs and old sayings about rocks, rules, nation, destiny

The impatient person eats goat; the one who hesitates eats beef.

Proverbs and old sayings about people

Once you have found your first diamond, you will never give up looking.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

When the elephant is slain all the tribes gather together to eat of it.

Proverbs and old sayings

One who enters a hut does not smell the termites roasting in the boiler.

Proverbs and old sayings

The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago; the next best time is now.

Proverbs and old sayings about time

The dupe who takes possession of a lame ox is seldom recognized as a fool.

Proverbs and old sayings

Hope does not kill; I shall live in hope of getting what I seek another day.

Proverbs and old sayings about hope, day

If he keeps on imitating everybody the monkey will one day cut his own throat.

Proverbs and old sayings about day

Until the lions have their historians, tales of hunting will always glorify the hunter.

Proverbs and old sayings about fairy tales, hunters

The one chased away with a club comes back, but the one chased away with reason does not.

Proverbs and old sayings about reason

The quail waits for the stick; the idle loiterer about a place waits for a kick from an old boot.

Proverbs and old sayings about old, olderness

When two elephants meet on a narrow bridge, they get nowhere until one of them backs down or lies down.

Proverbs and old sayings

The woman who always complains and is never satisfied with anything is like an annoying flea on the foot.

Proverbs and old sayings about woman

When you climb the mountain and reach the top, do not forget the branches shrubs that helped your footing.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

When you shoot a zebra in the black stripe, the white dies too; shoot it in the white and the black dies too.

Proverbs and old sayings about magic, contentment

God writes on crooked lines.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about god, americans

None of us knows who we are.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans

Laughing wife, crying purse.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about wife, americans

The lazybones must work twice.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about work, americans