Proverbs and old sayings, page 26

43574 proverbs and old sayings

If you don't understand it with a wink, you certainly will with a blow.

Proverbs and old sayings Moroccan about contentment

If you are a peg, endure the knocking; if you are a mallet, strike.

Proverbs and old sayings Moroccan about contentment

The seeds of the day are best planted in the first hour.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about day

A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about patience

He who attempts too much seldom succeeds.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

Little pots soon run over.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

God does not pay weekly, but He pays at the end.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about end, god

A cat will teach her young ones all the tricks, except how to jump backwards.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

You cannot fly with wings made of butter.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about contentment

Don't give a child a name until after it is born.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about name, children

You eat an egg, but you don't understand how painful it was for the chicken.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about contentment

The rainbow would be even more beautiful if the show was not for free.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

Proverbs and old sayings New Zealand about sun, fall, face, contentment

Boast during the day; be humble at night.

Proverbs and old sayings New Zealand about night, day

The block of wood should not dictate to the carver.

Proverbs and old sayings New Zealand

The more you ask how much longer it will take, the longer the journey seems.

Proverbs and old sayings New Zealand about contentment

Persist as resolutely as you persist in eating.

Proverbs and old sayings New Zealand about contentment

If the owner of the goat is not afraid to travel by night, the owner of a hyena certainly will not be.

Proverbs and old sayings about night

The cry of the hyena and the loss of the goat are one.

Proverbs and old sayings

Abundance will make cotton pull a stone.

Proverbs and old sayings