If the bathroom and a brandy cannot help a man, then death is imminent.
Proverbs and old sayings Finnish about help, death, man
Proverbs and old sayings Finnish, page 9
186 proverbs and old sayings finnish
One stupid person asks more than ten wise ones can spare time answering.
Proverbs and old sayings Finnish about people, time
With a walking-stick you reach many lands; you reach many more with words.
Proverbs and old sayings Finnish about word
If you can not find peace within yourself, it is useless to look elsewhere.
Proverbs and old sayings Finnish about peace
You can't trust that a job will be done properly unless you do it yourself.
Proverbs and old sayings Finnish
A snotnose may grow up to be a man; but he who laughs without cause, never.
Proverbs and old sayings Finnish about man
Be always a little afraid so that you never have need of being much afraid.
Proverbs and old sayings Finnish about being, need
If you borrow some chaff from the rich man you have to repay him with wheat.
Proverbs and old sayings Finnish about wealth, man
To an optimist every weed is a flower; to a pessimist every flower is a weed.
Proverbs and old sayings Finnish about optimism, garden
Love is a garden full of flowers and marriage is a field of stinging nettles.
Proverbs and old sayings Finnish about flowers, marriage, garden, love
A child is like an axe; even if it hurts, you stil carry them on your shoulders.
Proverbs and old sayings Finnish about children
Rather a man without a cow for the summer than without a wife for Christmas night.
Proverbs and old sayings Finnish about christmas, night, wife, man
Your memory can let you down like it did to a Finn who was carving a wooden spoon.
Proverbs and old sayings Finnish about memory
You get a lot of these blows, said the busy bee when he flew against a brick wall.
Proverbs and old sayings Finnish
Love came in a paper bag, said the maiden when she got a letter from her sweetheart.
Proverbs and old sayings Finnish about love
If you reach for something that is far too good for you, it is not going to end well.
Proverbs and old sayings Finnish about end, good, good luck
Express yourself earnestly, and you have no reason for shame even if you lack talent.
Proverbs and old sayings Finnish about talent, reason, shame
Happiness does not come from happiness itself, but from the journey towards achieving it.
Proverbs and old sayings Finnish about happiness
Father's goodness is higher than the mountains. Mother's goodness is deeper than the sea.
Proverbs and old sayings Finnish about mother
The mocked may grow up to dignity, but the mocker will never outgrow his juvenile behaviour.
Proverbs and old sayings Finnish about dignity
