A fool is happier thinking weel o' himself than a wise man is of others thinking weel o' him.
Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about thinking, man
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The gravest fish is an oyster; the gravest bird's an ool; the gravest beast's an ass; and the gravest man's a fool.
Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about fishing, man
The poverty of the gentleman is better than the money of the poor man.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about poverty, money, man
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
The oil merchant handles gold and diamonds; the grain merchant does business with silver, but the wine merchant is a poor man.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about affair, wine, man
Never spread your corn to dry before the door of a saintly man.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about man
The bachelor is a peacock, the fiancT is a lion and the married man a mule.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about man
The drunkard and the glutton come to poverty, and drowsiness clothes a man with rags.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about clothes, poverty, man
Smoke, a dripping roof, and a scolding wife, are enough to drive a man out of his life.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about smoke, wife, life, man
Whether it be so or not, husband, put on your hood. (He had told her there was a new law that every man with horns should wear a hood. )
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about husband, law, man
If there had been no poverty in europe, then the white man would not have come and spread his clothes in africa.
Proverbs and old sayings about clothes, poverty, man
No one will say, My father is incontinent. Everyone will say, He is a man of advice and wisdom.
Proverbs and old sayings Tunisian about advice, wisdom, man
The account of the donkey is different from that of the donkey-man.
Proverbs and old sayings Turkish about man
It is worms which destroy a tree, it is worry which destroys a man.
Proverbs and old sayings Turkish about worry, destruction, man
Three things it is best to avoid a strange dog, a flood, and a man who thinks he is wise.
Proverbs and old sayings Welsh about things, man
The child looks everywhere and often sees nought, the old man, sitting on the ground, sees everything.
Proverbs and old sayings Wolof about children, man, old, olderness
Men would not be richer for being miserly; generosity does not make a man poorer.
Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about generosity, being, man
The best horse needs a whip, intelligent men need advice, and devout women need a man.
Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about need, advice, man
It's raining, it's pouring:
It's raining, it's pouring;
The old man is snoring.
He went to bed and he
Bumped his head
And he couldn't get up in the morning.
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