Proverbs and old sayings, page 2093

43574 proverbs and old sayings

In order to find evildoers, every human being is given a name.

Proverbs and old sayings about order, human imperfections, name, being

The place where you are happy is better than the place you were born.

Proverbs and old sayings about happiness, contentment

The animal that is coming to be killed does not hear the hunter cough.

Proverbs and old sayings about hunters

If you have no time to take care of your sickness, you get time to die.

Proverbs and old sayings about time, death, contentment

When a child knows how to wash his hands well, he eats with the elders.

Proverbs and old sayings about children

The one who is looking for a wife doesn't speak contemptuously of women.

Proverbs and old sayings about wife

Although the horse is stupid, it does not follow that the rider is stupid.

Proverbs and old sayings

If you go to a rat's village and it is eating palm nuts, you eat some too.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

When a yam doesn't grow well, we don't blame it; it is because of the soil.

Proverbs and old sayings

If everyone helps to hold up the sky, then one person does not become tired.

Proverbs and old sayings about sky, people

A tree that has grown bent for thirty years cannot be straightened in one year.

Proverbs and old sayings

If they are uttering insults and don't mean you, and yet you reply, you have condemned yourself.

Proverbs and old sayings about insults, contentment

The rabbit has a saying which goes: 'if you were born a male then you are given impossible tasks. '

Proverbs and old sayings about impossible, contentment

No one roasts rotten meat and puts it in the mouth of their friend and then says 'you mouth stinks. '

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

If there had been no poverty in europe, then the white man would not have come and spread his clothes in africa.

Proverbs and old sayings about clothes, poverty, man

Perhaps you will eat a whole elephant and nothing gets stuck in your throat, and then you eat a fish and a bone gets stuck in your throat.

Proverbs and old sayings about fishing, nothing, contentment

Plenty is like the mist.

Proverbs and old sayings

What is seen is seen by all.

Proverbs and old sayings

Famine hides under the granary.

Proverbs and old sayings

You can't keep a bull in the Kraal.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment