Proverbs and old sayings, page 544

43575 proverbs and old sayings

Roba di Scolca, roba di forca. Les gens de Scolca sont bons pour la potence.

Proverbs and old sayings

When the month of May arrives, women's hair grows and penises become strong.

Proverbs and old sayings

If you think you've reached the top, watch out, you can fall just as quickly.

Proverbs and old sayings about fall, contentment

To get to know people, you have to eat a full donkey's cargo of salt together.

Proverbs and old sayings about people, contentment

Better to sit next to someone taking a shit rather than someone carving stone.

Proverbs and old sayings

The pubic hair of a woman mounting is stronger than two pairs of ox descending.

Proverbs and old sayings about woman

Lorsque tu arrives dans un autre pays, conforme-toi aux usages que tu y trouve.

Proverbs and old sayings

The morning rainbow reaches the fountains; the evening rainbow fills the sails.

Proverbs and old sayings

In Frassetu and Tavera, don't say? cuppa, ? because they'll punch you in the face.

Proverbs and old sayings about face, contentment

What keeps its leaves, to the waning moon. What loses its leaves, to the new moon.

Proverbs and old sayings about moon

Receive and rejoice, Antonio, it's your celebration; always receive and never restrain.

Proverbs and old sayings

If someone isn't handsome by nature, it's useless for them to wash over and over again.

Proverbs and old sayings about nature

When cicadas sing, the swineherd weeps and works. When frogs sing, the swineherd yawns.

Proverbs and old sayings

A fool doing what he knows is better than a hundred wise men doing what they don't know.

Proverbs and old sayings about man

The difference between appearances and truth is the same as between warping and weaving.

Proverbs and old sayings about truth

Dress up a rod, it looks like a baron. Dress up a stick of heather, it looks like a lady.

Proverbs and old sayings

The bad fortune of Zoza: in winter it sees not the sun and in summer it sees not the moon.

Proverbs and old sayings about moon, wealth, sun, bad luck, bad

When force and reason are in conflict, force of reason prevails and being reasonable isn't enough.

Proverbs and old sayings about force, police, reason, conflict, being

On April 8th, the cuckoo's call must be heard. If it isn't, either the cuckoo is dead or is going to die.

Proverbs and old sayings about death

A father and mother can raise ten children. But ten children aren't enough to keep a father and a mother.

Proverbs and old sayings about children, mother