Proverbs and old sayings, page 556

43574 proverbs and old sayings

The Germans in the stable, the Czech in the kitchen and the French in bed.

Proverbs and old sayings Czech

When the fool knows when to be silent, he would be sitting among the wise.

Proverbs and old sayings Czech

If you do good to the Devil, out of gratitude he will deliver you to hell.

Proverbs and old sayings Czech about gratitude, hell, devil, good, good luck

Even in the tiniest little chapel there are some prayers said once a year.

Proverbs and old sayings Czech

Choose your woman with a velvet glove, but control her with a fist of iron.

Proverbs and old sayings Czech about woman

The Lord will drench you with His showers, but he will dry you with His sun.

Proverbs and old sayings Czech about sun

Do not always expect good to happen, but do not let evil take you by surprise.

Proverbs and old sayings Czech about good, good luck

The world at large doesn't lead to hell nor does the monastery lead to heaven.

Proverbs and old sayings Czech about hell, world

I am a gentleman and you are a gentleman; who, then, should look after the pigs?

Proverbs and old sayings Czech

He who has not been given brains from above will not buy them at the apothecary.

Proverbs and old sayings Czech about commerce

Wait for a month before you praise a horse, and for a year before you praise a woman.

Proverbs and old sayings Czech about praise, woman

If you wake up in the morning and feel no pain it is to be feared that you died in the night.

Proverbs and old sayings Czech about pain, night

When a man is not a lover in his twenties, not strong in his thirties, not rich in his forties and not wise in his fifties he will never be so.

Proverbs and old sayings Czech about wealth, man

We will be known forever by the tracks we leave.

Proverbs and old sayings

Death is nothing and pain is nothing, but cowardice is crime and disgrace, the greatest punishment.

Proverbs and old sayings about cowardice, punishment, crime, criminals, nothing, pain, death

We will be known by the tracks we leave behind.

Proverbs and old sayings

To own is to fear.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about fear

Like will to like.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

Few words are best.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

Time works wonders.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about time