Proverbs and old sayings, page 368

43574 proverbs and old sayings

There is no pleasure that does not cause one's cheeks to tremble.

Proverbs and old sayings about pleasure

The village, which has got a whetstone, does not blunt the knife.

Proverbs and old sayings

The animal caught in the trap does not refuse to set itself free.

Proverbs and old sayings about trap

No married woman will have her white hair shaved at her mother's.

Proverbs and old sayings about mother, woman

When the food is cooked there is no need to wait before eating it.

Proverbs and old sayings about food, need

The cooking pot on the fire leaks, when pouring water it is broken.

Proverbs and old sayings about fire, fire brigade, water

The animal rambling in the stable makes the sleeping ones rise too.

Proverbs and old sayings

The hyena does not eat its baby, and you know how insatiable it is.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

The ox which has no horns, relies for help on the one that has them.

Proverbs and old sayings about help

There is no partridge which does not know its own way of scratching.

Proverbs and old sayings

Nobody grumbles while carrying a load, but when he has laid it down.

Proverbs and old sayings

When yuh leave home pon a morning, yuh don't know who gine feed yuh.

Proverbs and old sayings about home

A person will change his mind on something if left to sleep over it.

Proverbs and old sayings about change, mind, sleep, people

He who goes around with his body upright, later on will go crawling.

Proverbs and old sayings about body

The cimex lives in the firewood and still it reaches its full growth.

Proverbs and old sayings

To forget a strong man who could help you is the same as to scorn him.

Proverbs and old sayings about help, man, contentment

No prepotent man will insult other people for two consecutive seasons.

Proverbs and old sayings about people, man

Hyena says that men are wise because they know how to hold a firebrand.

Proverbs and old sayings about man

The bird who has always possessed a beak, does not pick up for another.

Proverbs and old sayings

If the first goat goes lame, those that follow will not reach the pasture.

Proverbs and old sayings