When a dead tree falls, the woodpeckers profit from his death.
Proverbs and old sayings Guatemalan about death
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90 proverbs and old sayings guatemalan
Gold is a debt we can repay, but kindness not till our dying day.
Proverbs and old sayings Guatemalan about day
If you dip your arm into the picklepot let it be up to the elbow.
Proverbs and old sayings Guatemalan
Don't think there are no crocodiles just because the water's calm.
Proverbs and old sayings Guatemalan about water
You can measure the depth of the sea but what about a man's heart?
Proverbs and old sayings Guatemalan about measure, heart, man
It is the fate of the coconut husk to float, for the stone to sink.
Proverbs and old sayings Guatemalan about destiny
However big the whale may be, the tiny harpoon can rob him of life.
Proverbs and old sayings Guatemalan about life
As if it weren't bad enough to fall, the ladder lands on top of you.
Proverbs and old sayings Guatemalan about fall, bad luck, bad
The day will come when cats have horns and Dutchmen will be circumcised.
Proverbs and old sayings Guatemalan about day
Though a tree grows ever so high, the falling leaves return to its roots.
Proverbs and old sayings Guatemalan
A deer tethered with a golden chain can escape to the forest to eat grass.
Proverbs and old sayings Guatemalan
The body pays for a slip of the foot and gold pays for a slip of the tongue.
Proverbs and old sayings Guatemalan about body
He can see a louse as far away as China but is not aware of an elephant on his nose.
Proverbs and old sayings Guatemalan
A piece of incense may be as large as the knee, but unless burned emits no fragrance.
Proverbs and old sayings Guatemalan
A diplomat should be yielding and supple as a creeper that can be bent but not broken.
Proverbs and old sayings Guatemalan
Don't think back on someone whose name you forgot, he is probably someone else by now.
Proverbs and old sayings Guatemalan about name
The betrothed of good is evil; the betrothed of life is death; the betrothed of love is divorce.
Proverbs and old sayings Guatemalan about death, life, love, good, good luck
Blow your horn in a herd of elephants; crow in the company of cockerels; bleat in a flock of goats.
Proverbs and old sayings Guatemalan about companies
Just as a bamboo cane forms a round jet of water, so taking counsel together makes men of one mind.
Proverbs and old sayings Guatemalan about moral, mind, man, water
As a child, is a man wrapped in his mother's womb; as an adult, in tradition; comes death, and he is wrapped in earth.
Proverbs and old sayings Guatemalan about tradition, earth, children, death, mother, man
