Proverbs and old sayings - Random

A fault confessed is half forgiven.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese

It's ill to take the breeks off a hielandman.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

He who is silent gains store.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about stores

Days cannot be tied in a bundle.

Proverbs and old sayings Bantu about day

Even honey can taste bitter if it's used as medicine.

Proverbs and old sayings Korean about medicine, bitter

If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, it would make him pull his hat over his eyes.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about eyes, man

A healthy woman is a successful woman.

Proverbs and old sayings French about woman

The miser will stubbornly live poorly in order to die rich.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about stubbornly, order, wealth, death

Long ways, long lies.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian

Better an iron dictatorship than a golden anarchy.

Proverbs and old sayings Norwegian about dictatorship

He who does not bait his hook catches nothing.

Proverbs and old sayings German about nothing

He has caught the leg of God.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian about god

We won the war, but lost peace.

Proverbs and old sayings Serbian about war, peace

It is good to make a bridge of gold to a flying enemy.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about enemies, good, good luck

An empty cellar makes an angry butler.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

For sulphur, wheat, wine, and wool, come to the towns of Sicily.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about wine

What is not bitter is good to eat.

Proverbs and old sayings Bantu about bitter, good, good luck

Better be silent than speak ill.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese

Near is my shirt, but nearer is my skin.

Proverbs and old sayings British

Love and eggs are best when they are fresh.

Proverbs and old sayings about love

To go beyond is as bad as to fall short.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about fall, bad luck, bad

I came to the place of my birth and cried, The friends of my youth, where are they? And echo answered, Where are they?

Proverbs and old sayings about youth

Where the tongue slips, it speaks the truth.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about truth

It's when it's small that the cucumber gets warped.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese

Fences mean nothing to those who can fly.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about nothing, americans

Caution is not cowardice; even the ants march armed.

Proverbs and old sayings Ugandan about cowardice, prudence

Go abroad and you'll hear news of home.

Proverbs and old sayings English about home, contentment

A dog won't forsake his master because of poverty; a son never deserts his mother because of her homely appearance.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about poverty, mother

A child doesn't breast-feed from a stepmother if its mother is still alive.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about children, mother

An arrow shot upright falls on the shooter's head.

Proverbs and old sayings English about heads

Jest not with the eye, or religion.

Proverbs and old sayings French about religion

Not cheap without reason, nor dear without value.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about value, reason

That day is lost on which one has not laughed.

Proverbs and old sayings French about day

The stones of my native country are warmer than the ovens of Babylon.

Proverbs and old sayings Armenian about country

A kitchen-dog is never a good rabbit-hunter.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about hunters, kitchen, good, good luck

He who has left a rogue behind him, has made a good day's journey.

Proverbs and old sayings German about day, good, good luck

You haven't yet caught the bird, still you are already plucking her.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian about haven, contentment

Gamesters and racehorses never last long.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

Were there no fools, there would be no wise men.

Proverbs and old sayings German about man

Talking is not like doing.

Proverbs and old sayings Lebanese about talking