Proverbs and old sayings, page 8

43574 proverbs and old sayings

The lazy one is pregnant in the sowing season.

Proverbs and old sayings Burundi about season

Even a big elephant can be caught in one female hair.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

An inch of time is an inch of gold, but you can't buy that inch of time with an inch of gold.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about time, commerce

When industry goes out of the door, poverty comes in at the window.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about poverty

Better die with honour than live with shame.

Proverbs and old sayings English about honour, shame, death

A cake eaten in peace, is worth two in trouble.

Proverbs and old sayings French about problems, peace

Love your neighbour, but don't pull down the fence.

Proverbs and old sayings German about love

Don't poison someone whom you can kill with sweets.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian

Don't sell the bearskin before you have caught the bear.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about commerce

Two wives are two pots full of poison.

Proverbs and old sayings

A king, a master, a parent, a judge, may fail to frighten us; but sickness coming brings with it successful reproof.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about judges

The pitcher goes so often to the well, that it leaves its handle or its mouth.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

The bee has a sting but honey too.

Proverbs and old sayings Swedish

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverbs and old sayings about light

Talk well of your friends and of your enemies say nothing.

Proverbs and old sayings about enemies, nothing

The highway is always shorter than the unknown side roads.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish

Before you love, learn to run through snow without leaving footprints.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish about love

The man to whom god gives no children, the devil gives nieces and nephews.

Proverbs and old sayings about children, devil, god, man

The fat buffalo will attract the lean buffalo.

Proverbs and old sayings Vietnamese

If a Jew cannot be a shoemaker, he will dream of being a professor.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about dream, being