Proverbs and old sayings - Random

There is many a good tune played on an old fiddle

Proverbs and old sayings British about old, olderness, good, good luck

Between promising and giving a man should marry his daughter.

Proverbs and old sayings French about man

The most faithful mirror is an old friend.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about old, olderness

Where rosemary grows the wife wears the trousers.

Proverbs and old sayings French about wife

It's the tortoise's shell, ugly and hard that protects its life long journey on earth.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about earth, life

If every fool wore a crown, we should all be kings.

Proverbs and old sayings Welsh

A spoken word is like a sparrow that once has flown away, cannot be caught again.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about word

All mouth and no trousers. All talk and no action.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about action

True love kythes in time of need.

Proverbs and old sayings about need, time, love

All sins cast long shadows.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about sin

A house without a dog or a cat is the house of a scoundrel.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about home, house

The opportunity makes the thief.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about chance, thieves

He builds castles in the air.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian about air

Avoid all bribes.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans

Evil falls on him who goes to seek it.

Proverbs and old sayings Mexican

That which got bent while growing when you straighten it, it breaks.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment

Women and calendars are good only for a year.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about good, good luck

To know the law and do the right are two things.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about law, rightness, things

A genius does not shout his wisdom from the housetops.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about genius, wisdom, americans

Better go without medicine than call in an unskilled physician.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about medicine

He is truly hungry who accepts defeat in a fight over meat.

Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about defeat, fight

People are the architects of their own fortune.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about wealth, people

A good horse and a bad horse need the spur; a good woman and a bad woman need the stick.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about need, woman, bad luck, bad, good, good luck

Things will develop in the opposite direction when they become extreme.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about things

He who steps aside for someone broadens the way.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

The green burns for the dry, and the righteous pay for sinners.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

A lean fee is a fit reward for a lazy clerk.

Proverbs and old sayings British about reward

A new net won't catch an old bird.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about trap, old, olderness

When the hand ceases to scatter, the heart ceases to pray.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about pray, heart

If you come up in this world, be sure not to go down in the next.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about world, contentment

He who begins and does not finish loves their pains.

Proverbs and old sayings about end

Save three pieces of gold and the fourth one will fall into your lap.

Proverbs and old sayings Croatian about fall

A creaking door hangs long on its hinges.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian

Many court the child for the sake of the nurse.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about children

Virtue flourishes in misfortune.

Proverbs and old sayings German about virtue

Prune cherry and fig trees mercilessly.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

The fear keeps your house poor.

Proverbs and old sayings about fear, home, house

An old sin, a new shame.

Proverbs and old sayings English about shame, sin, old, olderness

When men take wives they stop fearing hell.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about hell, man

When you remove the pack-saddle the sores become visible.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about contentment