Proverbs and old sayings, page 2174

43574 proverbs and old sayings

You have to look after wealth, but knowledge looks after you.

Proverbs and old sayings about knowledge, wealth

Many are the eyes of the person whose spouse commits adultery.

Proverbs and old sayings about eyes, people

The shark who has eaten cannot swim with the shark that is hungry.

Proverbs and old sayings

A monkey that pilfers from a widow's larder must not be admonished.

Proverbs and old sayings

The king lives way up where the stench of the poor cannot reach him.

Proverbs and old sayings

When you run alone, you run fast. When you run together, you run far.

Proverbs and old sayings about fasting

You can trust your brother, your father, your mother, but never your wife.

Proverbs and old sayings about wife, mother

One who enters a forest does not listen to the breaking of the twigs in the brush.

Proverbs and old sayings

Foam will always find its way to the shore.

Proverbs and old sayings Zulu

A man without a wife is a man without a house.

Proverbs and old sayings Zulu about wife, home, house, man

The bigger the pot the more rice will stick to it.

Proverbs and old sayings Zulu

When you play the flute in Zanzibar all Africa dances.

Proverbs and old sayings Zulu

A baby that does not cry will die on its mother's back.

Proverbs and old sayings Zulu about mother, death

A fruit tree that grows in a dung heap will certainly blossom.

Proverbs and old sayings Zulu

The death throes of an elephant are not so annoying as a living flea.

Proverbs and old sayings Zulu about death

Unless you know the road you've come down, you can not know where you are going.

Proverbs and old sayings Zulu

Maybe my canoe is bigger than yours, but the sea is the same. If there are no fish, we both go hungry.

Proverbs and old sayings Zulu about fishing

Chop wood, carry water.

Proverbs and old sayings Zen about water

The obstacle is the path.

Proverbs and old sayings Zen about obstacles

Sit, walk, or run, but don't wobble.

Proverbs and old sayings Zen