Proverbs and old sayings, page 331

43575 proverbs and old sayings

Insults must be written in sand and compliments carved in stone.

Proverbs and old sayings about insults

One coin in the money box makes more noise than when it is full.

Proverbs and old sayings about money

For every glance behind us, we have to look twice to the future.

Proverbs and old sayings about future

God has spared the naked man from washing his clothes with soap.

Proverbs and old sayings about clothes, god, man

A chameleon does not leave one tree until he is sure of another.

Proverbs and old sayings

The soul of an idiot is always dancing on the end of his tongue.

Proverbs and old sayings about soul, end

Don't ask the singer to sing until he wishes to sing by himself.

Proverbs and old sayings

The barking of dogs does not reduce the beggar's daily allotment.

Proverbs and old sayings

Rather the cruelty of the Turks than the justice of the Bedouins.

Proverbs and old sayings about cruelty, justice

Do not ridicule the thin-bearded when you yourself have no beard.

Proverbs and old sayings about ridicule, contentment

He who walks through a field of onions, will smell like an onion.

Proverbs and old sayings

Every ambitious man is a captive and every covetous one a pauper.

Proverbs and old sayings about man

If the camel once get his nose in the tent, his body will follow.

Proverbs and old sayings about body

The most praised form of fluency is silence when talk isn't wise.

Proverbs and old sayings about silence

He fasted for a whole year and then broke his fast with an onion.

Proverbs and old sayings about fasting

O! You sitting, may God protect you from the evils of the comers.

Proverbs and old sayings about god, contentment

If you want to hit your mother-in-law, be sure to split her head.

Proverbs and old sayings about law, mother, heads, contentment

Beware of one who flatters unduly; he will also censure unjustly.

Proverbs and old sayings

The only more dear to you than your child, is your child's child.

Proverbs and old sayings about children, contentment

When God wishes a man well, He gives him insight into his faults.

Proverbs and old sayings about god, man