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If we do nothing, without being ordered to do, no trouble will result from it.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian about problems, being, nothing

He treads downwards, on his subordinates and bows upwards, before his superiors.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

He can see the splinter in another's eye but cannot see even the beam in his own.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

Today it is enough to do it by one finger, tomorrow it will be necessary by ten nails.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

It is a fine thing to die for one's fatherland, but a still finer thing to live for it.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian about things, death

Give a Hungarian a glass of water and a Gypsy fiddler and he will become completely drunk.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian about gypsies, water

He who digs a pit for the horse of another man, will find his own horse's neck broken there.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian about man

He who has no knowledge, understanding of something, should not engage in, or interfere with it.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian about knowledge

If one person calls you a horse, laugh at him. If a second person calls you a horse, think about it.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian about people, contentment

Never kill a man who says nothing.

Proverbs and old sayings about nothing, man

Words are sweet, but they never take the place of food.

Proverbs and old sayings about food, word

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverbs and old sayings

Never let any mechanical device know that you are in a hurry.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

The rain does not recognize anyone as a friend; it drenches all equally.

Proverbs and old sayings about rain

When the brothers fight to the death, a stranger inherits their father's estate.

Proverbs and old sayings about real estate, fight, death

Always being in a hurry does not prevent death, neither does going slowly prevent living.

Proverbs and old sayings about being, death

Slow and sure.

Proverbs and old sayings Icelandic

Trusty as a troll.

Proverbs and old sayings Icelandic

Gold and green woods.

Proverbs and old sayings Icelandic

A sitting crow starves.

Proverbs and old sayings Icelandic