Proverbs and old sayings, page 326

43574 proverbs and old sayings

Act like you are an idiot and everyone will respect you.

Proverbs and old sayings about respect, contentment

Dig a well then close the well, but do not fire a worker.

Proverbs and old sayings about workers, fire, fire brigade

So long as the pot is boiling, friendship will stay warm.

Proverbs and old sayings about friendship

Fortune is with you for an hour, and against you for ten.

Proverbs and old sayings about wealth, contentment

The best act of generosity is that which is quickly done.

Proverbs and old sayings about generosity

When you shoot an arrow of truth, dip its point in honey.

Proverbs and old sayings about truth, contentment

Literal meaning: He left the party without having Hommos.

Proverbs and old sayings

The best of the things you own, is what is useful to you.

Proverbs and old sayings about things, contentment

Every dog is a great barker at the door of his own house.

Proverbs and old sayings about home, house

He who spits up in the air will get it back on his beard.

Proverbs and old sayings about air

The ideal phrase is that which is short and to the point.

Proverbs and old sayings about ideal

They were two, but united; we were a hundred, but divided.

Proverbs and old sayings

Forget brotherhood, each goat will cost your seven dinars.

Proverbs and old sayings about brotherhood

If the water is available you need not clean up with sand.

Proverbs and old sayings about need, water, contentment

Go softly, come softly, so that the cat does not gore you.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

Literal meaning: Save your white penny for your black day.

Proverbs and old sayings about magic, day

He fasts and fasts, then he breaks his fast with an onion.

Proverbs and old sayings about fasting

Children are buttonholes that hold their parents together.

Proverbs and old sayings about parents, children

A small tumbledown house is better than a communal palace.

Proverbs and old sayings about home, house

What starts with a condition ends with out any oppression.

Proverbs and old sayings about end