Proverbs and old sayings, page 331

43574 proverbs and old sayings

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

If you are offered a bull, do not ask how much milk he will give.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

What wise men suppose is worth more than the certainties of fools.

Proverbs and old sayings about man

He who is free to do what he wants will use his hand as a balance.

Proverbs and old sayings about use

A horse which is tamed at forty is only good for resurrection day.

Proverbs and old sayings about day, good, good luck

He who peeps at the neighbor's window may chance to lose his eyes.

Proverbs and old sayings about chance, eyes

If you cannot take things by the head, then take them by the tail.

Proverbs and old sayings about heads, things, contentment

An insult is but a short garment: it reveals the one who wears it.

Proverbs and old sayings

Three things to fear: a crumbling wall, an angry dog, and a shrew.

Proverbs and old sayings about fear, things

Both the fast and the slow will meet each other on the ferry boat.

Proverbs and old sayings about fasting