It is pleasant enough going afoot when you lead your horse by the bridle.
Proverbs and old sayings French about contentment
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The lucky fellow loses his wife, the unlucky fellow loses his horse.
Proverbs and old sayings Georgian about wife
He who heeds not the lost shoe-nail, will soon lose the horse.
Proverbs and old sayings German
Mules make a great fuss about their ancestors having been horses.
Proverbs and old sayings German about ancestors
A fence lasts three years, a dog lasts three fences, a horse three dogs, and a man three horses.
Proverbs and old sayings German about man
There is nothing for which the boors pray so much to God as that the horses of the squirearchy may not die, for otherwise they would ride the boors with spurs.
Proverbs and old sayings German about pray, death, nothing, god
The morning of the race is not the morning to feed your horse.
Proverbs and old sayings Irish
Without pressing too little or too hard, hold tight the reins for he's a fool who would not get value from a borrowed horse.
Proverbs and old sayings Irish about value
It is better to ride a donkey that carries you than a horse that throws you.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about contentment
He is a fool who boasts of four things: that he has good wine, a good horse, a handsome wife, and plenty of money.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about wine, wife, good, good luck, things, money
Crime leaves a trail like a water beetle; like a snail, it leaves its silver track; like a horse-mango, it leaves its smell.
Proverbs and old sayings Guatemalan about crime, criminals, water
If you see a man riding a wooden stick, say to him Good health to your horse.
Proverbs and old sayings Moroccan about good, good luck, man, contentment
If you see him riding on a bamboo-cane, say to him, Good health to your horse!
Proverbs and old sayings Moroccan about good, good luck, contentment
Your feet are crooked, your hair is good for nothing, said the pig to the horse.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian about nothing, good, good luck
Everyone knows that you mustn't praise a good wine, a good horse and a good wife.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about praise, good, good luck, wine, wife, contentment
Whoever goes on foot during April and May, goes on horseback the rest of the year.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about rest
You drive a donkey with a stick, an ox and a mule with a prod, and the horse with a whip and spurs.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about contentment
The ideal is a four year old dog, an eight year old horse, an eighteen year old woman and a twenty eight year old man.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about ideal, old, olderness, woman, man
Nothing is lost on a journey by stopping to pray or to feed your horse.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about pray, nothing
Give me the ass that carries me in preference to the horse that throws me.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish
