Proverbs and old sayings - Random

An answer without a question signals guilt without question.

Proverbs and old sayings Mexican about question, guilt

Ill in kine and worse in beeves.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

His heart fell down to his heels.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about heart

A gowk at yule'll no be bright at beltane.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian

After the hyena has gone, the dog barks.

Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian

Don't bother the beggar's son and the beggar's son won't bother you.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about contentment

Nobody is forced to attend the dinner given after killing a pig.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

The tongue goes to where the tooth aches.

Proverbs and old sayings French

Nothing should be done in haste but gripping a flea.

Proverbs and old sayings German about nothing

Talent and poverty, wealth and stupidity generally dwell together.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about talent, stupidity, wealth, poverty

The dog never forgets its owner.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

Clothes put on while running come off while running.

Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian about clothes

He who drinks water with one hand finds out his thirst is still there.

Proverbs and old sayings about water

It is idle to swallow the cow and choke on the tail.

Proverbs and old sayings German

Ambition destroys its possessor.

Proverbs and old sayings about ambition

Some men will build a wine cellar when they have found just one grape.

Proverbs and old sayings Lebanese about wine, man

All had rather it were well for themselves than for another.

Proverbs and old sayings German

Looking at a tree see its fruit; looking at a man see his deeds.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about deeds, man

Two hard flints never grind well.

Proverbs and old sayings German

Every fox must pay his own skin to the flayer.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian

Charm is more than beauty.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about charm, beauty

To love the king is not bad, but a king who loves you is better.

Proverbs and old sayings Wolof about bad luck, love, bad, contentment

Be the same thing that thou wald be cald.

Proverbs and old sayings about things

A day of fasting is the eve of a feast.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about fasting, feast, day

Beware the man who lavishes too much praise on you, he will later run you down.

Proverbs and old sayings about praise, contentment, man

A day without work can yield a night without sleep.

Proverbs and old sayings Albanian about sleep, night, work, day

Crows bewail the dead sheep, and then eat them.

Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy

Soon learned, soon forgotten.

Proverbs and old sayings

Honest advice doesn't destroy true friendship.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about destruction, friendship, advice

Lang tarrying taks a' the thanks awa'.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

A bold does not always fall when it thunders.

Proverbs and old sayings German about fall

Who walks gains, who sits withers.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

Great minds think alike

Proverbs and old sayings German about old, olderness

Set a cow to catch a hare.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about trap

Necessity teaches naked woman to spin.

Proverbs and old sayings Icelandic about woman

Milk for a child, meat for a man, beer for the old.

Proverbs and old sayings Welsh about children, man, old, olderness

When tide is high, it ebbs.

Proverbs and old sayings

The applause of the people is a blast of air.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about air, people

Put your best foot forward

Proverbs and old sayings British about old, olderness

Do not speak of secrets in a field that is full of little hills.

Proverbs and old sayings