Proverbs and old sayings, page 372

43574 proverbs and old sayings

Visitors' footfalls are like medicine; they heal the sick.

Proverbs and old sayings Bantu about medicine

A woman's clothes are the price her husband pays for peace.

Proverbs and old sayings Bantu about clothes, husband, peace, woman

He was entrapped by the evening, it has cost him his marriage.

Proverbs and old sayings Bantu about marriage

Just one by one white hairs have come, and thus have they grown.

Proverbs and old sayings Bantu

Even if your bee-hive has no honey in it, you shouldn't break it up.

Proverbs and old sayings Bantu

What one won't eat by itself, one will eat when mixed with other food.

Proverbs and old sayings Bantu about food

Even if you are cunning, you will not tie water up in a bale of grass.

Proverbs and old sayings Bantu about water

A child one does not instruct on return, one instructs him when going.

Proverbs and old sayings Bantu about children

Your friend, one doesn't stare at his forehead, one stares at his stomach.

Proverbs and old sayings Bantu

Whenever I work hard for other people, I always sleep on an empty stomach.

Proverbs and old sayings Bantu about sleep, work, people

Words in conversation are like beans, one breaks them off where they are ripe.

Proverbs and old sayings Bantu about conversation

We celebrated at the wax door, and all the time the honeycomb was empty within.

Proverbs and old sayings Bantu about time

Where there is a friend, one does not have to call, he will come of his own accord.

Proverbs and old sayings Bantu

Earth is like a prison: we all go in through the same door, but we stay in different cells.

Proverbs and old sayings Bantu about earth

There is no return, worse luck; for could I return, I would foresee what has come into the country.

Proverbs and old sayings Bantu about country, bad luck, good luck

What the people think cannot be denied.

Proverbs and old sayings about people

When you need to make an important decision, never do it alone, choose the right people.

Proverbs and old sayings about rightness, need, people

God is good, but not crazy.

Proverbs and old sayings Basques about god, good, good luck

Empty houses are full of noises.

Proverbs and old sayings Basques

Honey is bitter for a sore mouth.

Proverbs and old sayings Basques about bitter