Proverbs and old sayings Estonian, page 10

201 proverbs and old sayings estonian

Who takes care of a widow's 'hole' will inherit the heavenly kingdom.

Proverbs and old sayings Estonian

When death comes, the rich man has no money and the poor man no debt.

Proverbs and old sayings Estonian about death, wealth, money, man

Who weds a widow with three children takes four thieves into his house.

Proverbs and old sayings Estonian about thieves, children, home, house

Who can not be trusted in small things can not be trusted in big things.

Proverbs and old sayings Estonian about things

Happy the marriage where the husband is the head and the wife the heart.

Proverbs and old sayings Estonian about marriage, husband, happiness, wife, heads, heart

If you go only once round the room, you are wiser than he who sits still.

Proverbs and old sayings Estonian

The man who can sharpen hundred stakes between two meals, can take a wife.

Proverbs and old sayings Estonian about wife, man

Who laughs at beggar's staff and roundhouse will be put to prison himself.

Proverbs and old sayings Estonian about prison

Who reminds of the past and recall what has been will have his ear cut off.

Proverbs and old sayings Estonian about past

Who does not share what he is given will not share what he has in his barn.

Proverbs and old sayings Estonian

The old man looks death in the eye, the young man keeps him behind his back.

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

It is better to be without a wife for a minute than without tobacco for an hour.

Proverbs and old sayings Estonian about wife

Smart is the one who goes along with time, stupid is the one who bears his fangs.

Proverbs and old sayings Estonian about intelligence, time

The fish who is in the weir will want out, who is outside will want inside the weir.

Proverbs and old sayings Estonian

Who can tie an oven brush, weave a sackcloth and turn over chitterlings is ready for marriage.

Proverbs and old sayings Estonian about marriage

Who eats lying on his side will commit ten sins, who eats lying on his back will commit seven sins.

Proverbs and old sayings Estonian about lie, sin

Who shears the sheep's head will live a couple of days, who shears its tail will live a hundred years.

Proverbs and old sayings Estonian about couple, day, heads

Who goes out begging with a bread will come back with a piece, who goes out with a piece will come back with a bread.

Proverbs and old sayings Estonian

Who does not notice you in rags will not notice you in nice clothes, who notices you in rags will also motice you in nice clothes.

Proverbs and old sayings Estonian about clothes

A girl who cannot patch man's trousers in between the legs, must not marry at all, because what use does a man have of such a stupid wife.

Proverbs and old sayings Estonian about use, wife, man