Proverbs and old sayings, page 9

43574 proverbs and old sayings

Slowly, slowly, even an egg will walk.

Proverbs and old sayings

If you are to hit then make it painful, because you'll get one blame eitherways.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

The goat eats the grass there where it is tied.

Proverbs and old sayings

Health and gaiety foster beauty.

Proverbs and old sayings British about beauty

The crutch of time does more than the club of Hercules.

Proverbs and old sayings British about time

Old men, when they marry young women, make much of death.

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

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, contentment

Dogs have teeth in all countries.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about country

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 about contentment

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

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about commerce, contentment

Two wives are two pots full of poison.

Proverbs and old sayings

My turn today, yours tomorrow.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

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 brave man lives until the coward wants.

Proverbs and old sayings Mexican about man