Cross in a crowd and the crocodile won't eat you.
Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about contentment
Saints don't fill the belly.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about saints
Fair words please the fool, and sometimes the wise.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about word
The miller is never so drunk that he forgets to take his dues.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish
My donkey is dead; let no more grass grow.
Proverbs and old sayings Greek
Our neighbour's crop is always more fruitful and his cattle produce more milk than our own.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin
The beauty of a woman does not make a man richer.
Proverbs and old sayings French about beauty, woman, man
A royal heart is often hid under a tattered cloak.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about heart
A friend is not known but in need.
Proverbs and old sayings about need
Blame not others for the faults that are in you.
Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans, contentment
Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.
Proverbs and old sayings Swedish about joy, sadness
Most people forget everything except being ungrateful.
Proverbs and old sayings about being, people
It's astonishing how important a man becomes when he dies.
Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about man
Believe not that all that shines is gold.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about faith
Don't believe in foretellings but don't stay without them.
Proverbs and old sayings Turkish about faith
He that sleeps with dogs maun rise with flaes.
Proverbs and old sayings Scottish
When the sea turned to honey, the poor man lost his spoon.
Proverbs and old sayings Bulgarian about man
Emulation is the whetstone of talent.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about talent
Where the heart would go, there follows the foot.
Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about heart
The river is crossed where it is shallow.
Proverbs and old sayings
The ship that will not obey the helm will have to obey the rocks.
Proverbs and old sayings English about rocks
The stone is hard and the drop is small, but a hole is made by the constant fall.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about fall
A weir close to completion left undone due to the shortage of a basket of earth.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about earth
Annoy your doctor and sickness comes in laughing.
Proverbs and old sayings
Burn your enemies caravan and you burn you future.
Proverbs and old sayings Gypsy about future, gypsies, enemies, contentment
Water is muddy at the fountainhead.
Proverbs and old sayings Persian about water
Every skin teeth aint a laugh.
Proverbs and old sayings
Go early to market and as late as you can to battle.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about stores, contentment
It is not tin that a friend gets.
Proverbs and old sayings Scottish
Dear is cheap, and cheap is dear.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese
When there are two fires in one room, only one will smoke.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about fire, smoke
One for sorrow, two for joy, Three for a girl, four for a boy. Five for silver, six for gold, And seven for a secret that must never be told.
Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about joy, secret, sadness
There lies a lion in every heart.
Proverbs and old sayings Turkish about heart
A lad on the dam.
Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian
Rule the roost.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about rules
Fish don't get caught in deep water.
Proverbs and old sayings Guatemalan about fishing, water
Dreams give wings to fools.
Proverbs and old sayings South American about dream, americans
He who is an ass and takes himself to be a stag finds his mistake when he comes to leap the ditch.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about mistake
The mother-in-law must be entreated, and the pot must be let stand.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about law, mother
Examine what is said, not him who speaks.
Proverbs and old sayings Arab
