Proverbs and old sayings, page 8

43575 proverbs and old sayings

You must take the fat with the lean.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about contentment

He would drown in a spoonful of water.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about water

Pay the doctor, praise the Lord.

Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican about praise

Forgiving the unrepentant is like drawing pictures on water.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about drawing, water

Dignity and an empty sack is worth the sack.

Proverbs and old sayings about dignity

Woman was born three days earlier than the devil.

Proverbs and old sayings Korean about day, devil, woman

It is better to turn back than to persevere in an evil course.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about perseverance

I would rather be in an apple-tree, than a bad man in distress.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about bad luck, bad, man

Fear not a jest. If one throws salt at you, you will not be harmed unless you have sore places.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about fear, contentment

Let no man glory in the greatness of his mind, but rather keep watch o'er his wits.

Proverbs and old sayings about greatness, glory, mind, man

If you enter the city of the blind, cover your eyes.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about city, blind, eyes, contentment

Death squares all accounts.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about death

The brains don't lie in the beard.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about lie

Let every pedlar carry his own burden.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about burden

It chances in an hour, that happens not in seven years.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about chance

An ill life, an ill end.

Proverbs and old sayings about end, life

Have ye gear have ye nane, tine heart and a's gane.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about heart

One whisky is all right; two is too much; three is too few.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about rightness

Under my cloak I kill the king.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

A hidden fire is discovered by its smoke.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about smoke, fire, fire brigade