Proverbs and old sayings, page 327

43574 proverbs and old sayings

If the heart is empty, the rest will soon abandon you too.

Proverbs and old sayings about rest, heart, contentment

Make do with bread and butter until God can bring you jam.

Proverbs and old sayings about god, contentment

The doorstep weeps for forty days whenever a girl is born.

Proverbs and old sayings about day

An eloquent cock crows as soon as it comes out of the egg.

Proverbs and old sayings

Like the needle which clothes others while remaining naked.

Proverbs and old sayings about clothes

Death was afraid of him because he had the heart of a lion.

Proverbs and old sayings about death, heart

Literal meaning: Give me long life and throw me in the sea.

Proverbs and old sayings about life

Better a hundred enemies outside the house than one inside.

Proverbs and old sayings about enemies, home, house

Patience is the key of joy; but haste is the key to sorrow.

Proverbs and old sayings about joy, sadness, patience

It may be a fire today, but tomorrow it will be only ashes.

Proverbs and old sayings about fire, fire brigade

When what you want doesn't happen, learn to want what does.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

Youth is a kind of illness cured only by the passing years.

Proverbs and old sayings about youth

Better a thousand enemies outside the tent than one within.

Proverbs and old sayings about enemies

Ask me what are my virtues, not about the color of my skin.

Proverbs and old sayings

Light your lamp first at home and afterwards at the mosque.

Proverbs and old sayings about light, home

The frying-pan says to the kettle, Avaunt, black brows!

Proverbs and old sayings about magic

A good man is one who rejoices in the well-being of others.

Proverbs and old sayings about being, good, good luck, man

The ink of a scholar is worth as much as the martyr's blood.

Proverbs and old sayings about blood

If a wife is unfaithful then the husband is partly to blame.

Proverbs and old sayings about husband, wife

Though pepper is a tiny thing, its taste is mighty powerful.

Proverbs and old sayings about things