Figs he calls figs, a spade a spade. [Said of a man who speaks with sincerity and means what he says. ]
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about sincerity, man
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Have a care how you irritate the wasps. [Meddle not with waspish people. Attack not a combined force. ]
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about attack, force, police, people
That fair face will as years roll on lose its beauty, and old age will bring its wrinkles to the brow.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about olderness, beauty, age, face, old
I speak of garlic, you reply about onions. [I speak of one thing, you reply what is wholly irrelevant. ]
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about things
Those who see the faults of others, and see not their own, are wise for others and fools for themselves.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin
If you sit on a seat, and that seat is a comfortable seat, sit on that seat, and do not leave that seat.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin
Let but the hours of idleness cease, and the bow of Cupid will become broken and his torch extinguished.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin
The field should be poorer than the farmer. [It is useless for a man to attempt farming without capital. ]
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about man
What is not understood [explained] by what is less understood. [To make confusion still more confounded. ]
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about confusion
He opens the theatre, and immediately closes it. [He raises expectation, and crushes it at the same time. ]
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about theatre, expectation, time
Give assistance, and receive thanks lighter than a feather: injure a man, and his wrath will be like lead.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about man
In the great sea fish is always to be caught. [There is a greater chance for enterprise in a large place. ]
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about chance
An ass is beautiful in the eyes of an ass; a sow in those of a sow; and every race is attractive to itself.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about eyes
Again and again I beg and pray of you to live merrily: should aught distress you, dismiss it from your minds.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about pray
Hear all, see all, say nowt, tak' all, keep all, gie nowt, and if tha ever does owt for nowt do it for thysen.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin
It is soon known which trees will bear fruit. [A natural bent for good or evil is easily perceptible in youth. ]
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about youth, good, good luck
But now I was a rich man, three things have left me bare; dice, wine, and women, these three have made me poor.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about wine, wealth, things, man
He who knows not how to employ his leisure hath more cares on his mind than the most busy of busily-engaged men.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about mind, man
They limit their expenditure where it is not needed, and are ever lavish of that of which they should be sparing.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about limits
Morn with her rosy locks dispels the shades of night, and the sun puts to flight the stars, lighting up the world.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about flight, celebrity, stars, sun, night, world
