Proverbs and old sayings, page 2033

43574 proverbs and old sayings

He who asks for salt does so for his own cooking pot.

Proverbs and old sayings

A person who is in too much of a hurry stubs his toe.

Proverbs and old sayings about people

He who fears the crying of a child, will cry himself.

Proverbs and old sayings about children

A rotten coconut in a heap spoils the wholesome ones.

Proverbs and old sayings

Rice is all one but they are many ways of cooking it.

Proverbs and old sayings

A pit of the tongue cannot be covered up by the hand.

Proverbs and old sayings

Where there are plenty of trees there are no builders.

Proverbs and old sayings

A wife is like clothes and banana plant needs weeding.

Proverbs and old sayings about clothes, wife

He who earns his living in the sun, eats in the shade.

Proverbs and old sayings about sun

Abuses are the result of seeing one another too often.

Proverbs and old sayings

An elephant hunter usually gets killed by an elephant.

Proverbs and old sayings about hunters

You may climb a thorn tree, and be unable to come down.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

Eyes have no screens, they see all that is within view.

Proverbs and old sayings about eyes

To stumble is not falling down but it is to go forward.

Proverbs and old sayings

He who dips his finger into honey does not dip it once.

Proverbs and old sayings

A wepon which you don't have in hand wont kill a snake.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

He who requires what is under the bed must bend for it.

Proverbs and old sayings

The skin of yesteday's sugarcane is a havest to an ant.

Proverbs and old sayings

Borrowing is like a wedding, repaying is like mourning.

Proverbs and old sayings about marriage

It is better to lose your eyes than to lose your heart.

Proverbs and old sayings about eyes, heart