Proverbs and old sayings, page 327

43575 proverbs and old sayings

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

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