Proverbs and old sayings Finnish, page 8

186 proverbs and old sayings finnish

Help the man climbing a hill, not the one standing below it.

Proverbs and old sayings Finnish about help, man

A sauna makes a woman most beautiful one hour after the bath.

Proverbs and old sayings Finnish about woman

Keeping yourself and your food clean, you'll get more from it.

Proverbs and old sayings Finnish about food

Don't raise your club so high; it will only fall on your head.

Proverbs and old sayings Finnish about fall, heads

Age does not give you good sense, it only makes you go slowly.

Proverbs and old sayings Finnish about common sense, sense, age, olderness, good, good luck

If a sauna, whiskey and tar do not help, the disease is fatal.

Proverbs and old sayings Finnish about help

If vodka, tar and sauna don't help, the disease leads to death.

Proverbs and old sayings Finnish about help, death

Water runs a whole mile downstream easier than an inch upstream.

Proverbs and old sayings Finnish about water

Send a child to do your errands, go do them yourself afterwards.

Proverbs and old sayings Finnish about children

A married man has many sorrows -- an unmarried man has one more.

Proverbs and old sayings Finnish about man

If tar, hard liquor and sauna do not cure; the disease is fatal.

Proverbs and old sayings Finnish

Work doesn't scare him, but he could lay down near it and sleep.

Proverbs and old sayings Finnish about sleep, work

When something has been denied of you, you can still do it once.

Proverbs and old sayings Finnish

Many cakes are beautiful on the surface, but have crappy fillings.

Proverbs and old sayings Finnish

There's a man who looks like a partridge with legs like a mosquito.

Proverbs and old sayings Finnish about man

No use crying at the market, sell your fur coat and drink the money.

Proverbs and old sayings Finnish about commerce, stores, use, drinking, money

A little bit of experience is better than a barrel full of knowledge.

Proverbs and old sayings Finnish about experience, knowledge

The lazy sweat when they eat and complain of the cold when they work.

Proverbs and old sayings Finnish about work

If a man knew where he would fall, he would spread straw there first.

Proverbs and old sayings Finnish about fall, man

You're just like a baby; one never knows what comes and when it comes.

Proverbs and old sayings Finnish