Proverbs and old sayings, page 1982

43574 proverbs and old sayings

If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about god, contentment

I mistress and you miss, who is to sweep the house?

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about home, house, contentment

From my gossip's bread a large piece for my godson.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about gossip

I neither give nor take, like a Jew on the Sabbath.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

Never advise someone to go to war or to get married.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about war

Men are just as God made them -- and a little worse.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about man, god

Better be the head of a rat than the tail of a lion.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about heads

I say it to you, daughter; hear it, daughter-in-law.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about law, contentment

A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about progress

Take what you want, God said to man, and pay for it.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about god, man, contentment

Self-knowledge is the beginning of self-improvement.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about self-control, beginning, knowledge

He who threatens to strike, and does not, is afraid.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

He who does not honour his wife, dishonours himself.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about honour, wife

Don't call me a little olive until you've picked me.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about contentment

The more riches a fool hath, the greater fool he is.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about wealth

The person that makes one basket can make a hundred.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about people

A word and a stone once launched cannot be recalled.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about word

Go to bed supperless and you will wake without debt.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about contentment

Limit your desires and you will improve your health.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about limits, contentment

Whither goest thou, sorrow? Whither I am used to go.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about sadness