Proverbs and old sayings, page 59

43574 proverbs and old sayings

When a father helps a son, both smile; but when a son must help his father, both cry.

Proverbs and old sayings Jewish about smile, help

When a twig grows hard it is difficult to twist it. Every beginning is weak.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about beginning

When fire is applied to a stone it cracks.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about fire, fire brigade

When fortune knocks upon the door open it widely.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about wealth

When its time has arrived, the prey becomes the hunter.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about hunters, time

When one dog barks another will join it.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion.

Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian

When the apple is ripe, it will fall.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about fall

When the drop (drink) is inside, the sense is outside.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about common sense, sense, drinking

When the iron is hot, strike.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about enemies, contentment

When there is order in the nation, there will be peace in the world.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about nation, order, peace, world

When you live next to the cemetery, you cannot weep for everyone.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment

Where there is love, there is pain.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about pain, love

Who begins too much accomplishes little.

Proverbs and old sayings German

Wine divulges truth.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about wine, truth

With money you are a dragon; with no money, a worm.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about money, contentment

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek about miracle, beginning, wisdom

You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about contentment

Young men may die, old men must.

Proverbs and old sayings English about man, death, old, olderness