Proverbs and old sayings, page 365

43574 proverbs and old sayings

Old people's walking teaches young ones to walk.

Proverbs and old sayings about people, old, olderness

The hyena calls another hyena worse than itself.

Proverbs and old sayings

There is no mischance you are guaranteed against.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

The ox that feeds itself does not spoil its skin.

Proverbs and old sayings

Cockroach aint had no right in fowl cock company.

Proverbs and old sayings about companies, rightness

Nobody grumbles at being rich, all at being poor.

Proverbs and old sayings about being, wealth

A little idleness causes the ruin of the beehive.

Proverbs and old sayings

The son of the leopard scratches like its mother.

Proverbs and old sayings about mother

The day is for working, the night is for resting.

Proverbs and old sayings about night, day

There is no name which cannot distinguish a child.

Proverbs and old sayings about name, children

You cant be in the town and be in the country too.

Proverbs and old sayings about city, country, contentment

The food eaten first lasts longest in the stomach.

Proverbs and old sayings about food

Hard ears yuh won't hear, by and by yuh gine feel.

Proverbs and old sayings

To blame the wind for the rain that does not fall.

Proverbs and old sayings about rain, fall

The sea aint got no backdoor; I can swim like lead.

Proverbs and old sayings

The elders of the council do not jump over a brook.

Proverbs and old sayings

Wha' a sober heart conceal a drunken tongue reveal.

Proverbs and old sayings about heart

The whetstone in a village does no blunt the knife.

Proverbs and old sayings

The blessed knife eats of the meat of the 'kinandu'.

Proverbs and old sayings

A plant loses its blossom as soon as it bears fruit.

Proverbs and old sayings