Proverbs and old sayings, page 53

43574 proverbs and old sayings

One should go invited to a friend in good fortune, and uninvited in misfortune.

Proverbs and old sayings Swedish about wealth, good, good luck

One woman never praises another.

Proverbs and old sayings Estonian about woman

Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches.

Proverbs and old sayings English

Patience is poultice for all wounds.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about patience

Patience is the best medicine.

Proverbs and old sayings British about medicine, patience

People live in each other's shelter.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about people

Pigs might fly, but they are most unlikely birds.

Proverbs and old sayings Chinese

Politics is a rotten egg; if broken, it stinks.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about politics

Poor men seek meat for their stomach, rich men stomach for their meat.

Proverbs and old sayings English about man, wealth

Power lasts ten years; influence not more than a hundred.

Proverbs and old sayings Korean about influence, power

Praise the young and they will blossom.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about praise

Public before private and country before family.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about public, family, country

Put silk on a goat, and it's still a goat.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

Riches run after the rich, and poverty runs after the poor.

Proverbs and old sayings French about wealth, poverty

Roasted pigeons will not fly into one's mouth.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

Rome was not built in a day

Proverbs and old sayings British about day, old, olderness

Sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.

Proverbs and old sayings English

Seek counsel of him who makes you weep, and not of him who makes you laugh.

Proverbs and old sayings about moral, contentment

Set a beggar on horseback, and he 'll out ride the Devil.

Proverbs and old sayings German about devil

Silence was never written down.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about silence