Proverbs and old sayings, page 2012

43574 proverbs and old sayings

If you are choosing between bad company and loneliness, choose the second option.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about solitude, companies, bad luck, bad, contentment

Let there be no lack of food in the pigeon-house, and the pigeons will come to it.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about food, home, house

He that minds his business at home, will not be accused of taking part in the fray.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about affair, home

He does not a little who burns his house: he frightens the rats, and warms himself.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about home, house

If the child cries let the mother hush it, and if it will not be hushed let it cry.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about children, mother

He that is born to be hanged shall never be drowned. You can't escape your destiny.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about destiny, contentment

A malicious man is like a coal sack -- black on the outside and even blacker inside.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about magic, man

Fond pride of dress is sure a very curse; Ere fancy you consult, consult your purse.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about proudness, contentment

A gentle breeze blowing in the right direction is better than a pair of strong oars.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about rightness

He who eats a partridge in his youth will only be left with feathers in his old age.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about olderness, youth, age, old

Three things are not to be trusted; a cow's horn, a dog's tooth, and a horse's hoof.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about things

Spilled wine is a sign of happiness, but break the bed and all will have long faces.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about happiness, wine

They took away the mirror from me because I was ugly, and gave it to the blind woman.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about blind, woman

If you have a loitering servant, set his dinner before him and send him on an errand.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about contentment

The old for want of ability, and the young for want of knowledge, let things be lost.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about ability, knowledge, things, old, olderness

Mary Busybody never wants a bad day, and Mary Drone has God to give and bring to her.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about bad luck, god, day, bad

Friday pretexts for not fasting (meaning pleas of indisposition for not eating fish. )

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about fasting, fishing

The drunkard and the glutton come to poverty, and drowsiness clothes a man with rags.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about clothes, poverty, man

Whether you ignore a pig, or worship that pig from afar, to the pig it's all the same.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about contentment

Three things must epigrams, like bees, have all, A sting, and honey, and a body small.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about body, things