Proverbs and old sayings Egyptian, page 7

156 proverbs and old sayings egyptian

Old countries don't disappear overnight; they stay for breakfast.

Proverbs and old sayings Egyptian about country, old, olderness

More precious than our children are the children of our children.

Proverbs and old sayings Egyptian about children

Rather a piece of bread with a happy heart than wealth with grief.

Proverbs and old sayings Egyptian about sadness, wealth, happiness, heart

One who marries for love alone will have bad days but good nights.

Proverbs and old sayings Egyptian about day, bad luck, love, bad, good, good luck

Whoever is ashamed to sleep with his wife will never have children.

Proverbs and old sayings Egyptian about sleep, children, wife

Who has not done any evil act, his or her heart may be found right.

Proverbs and old sayings Egyptian about rightness, heart

Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

Proverbs and old sayings Egyptian about proudness, destruction, spirit, fall

The idiot who has his eye on your wife is like a blood sucking fly.

Proverbs and old sayings Egyptian about blood, wife

Making money selling manure is better than losing money selling musk.

Proverbs and old sayings Egyptian about money

If you are wise, look after your house; love your wife without alloy.

Proverbs and old sayings Egyptian about wife, home, house, love

Put a rope around your neck and many will be happy to drag you along.

Proverbs and old sayings Egyptian about happiness

When I hear you, I believe you. When I see what you do, I'm surprised.

Proverbs and old sayings Egyptian

Cover up the good you do -- do like the Nile and conceal your sources.

Proverbs and old sayings Egyptian about good, good luck

Believe the liar up to the door of his house and no further than that.

Proverbs and old sayings Egyptian about home, house

Your friend chooses pebbles for you and your enemy counts your faults.

Proverbs and old sayings Egyptian about enemies

The marksman hitteth the mark partly by pulling, partly by letting go.

Proverbs and old sayings Egyptian

He whose house is made out of glass, shouldn't throw stones at people.

Proverbs and old sayings Egyptian about home, house, people

I am talking to you, daughter-in-law, so that you could hear it, neighbor.

Proverbs and old sayings Egyptian about talking, law

Pride and dignity would belong to women if only men would leave them alone.

Proverbs and old sayings Egyptian about dignity, proudness, man

If you have to drag a dog to the hunt, neither he nor his hunting is any good.

Proverbs and old sayings Egyptian about good, good luck