An ass is beautiful in the eyes of an ass; a sow in those of a sow; and every race is attractive to itself.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about eyes
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Again and again I beg and pray of you to live merrily: should aught distress you, dismiss it from your minds.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about pray, contentment
Hear all, see all, say nowt, tak' all, keep all, gie nowt, and if tha ever does owt for nowt do it for thysen.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin
It is soon known which trees will bear fruit. [A natural bent for good or evil is easily perceptible in youth. ]
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about youth, good, good luck
But now I was a rich man, three things have left me bare; dice, wine, and women, these three have made me poor.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about wine, wealth, things, man
He who knows not how to employ his leisure hath more cares on his mind than the most busy of busily-engaged men.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about mind, man
They limit their expenditure where it is not needed, and are ever lavish of that of which they should be sparing.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about limits
Morn with her rosy locks dispels the shades of night, and the sun puts to flight the stars, lighting up the world.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about flight, celebrity, stars, sun, night, world
A king, a master, a parent, a judge, may fail to frighten us; but sickness coming brings with it successful reproof.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about judges
It is but a small merit to observe silence, but it is a grave fault to speak of matters on which we should be silent.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about merit, silence
Great discomfort arises from too hearty a supper: if you would enjoy a tranquil sleep let your supper be a light one.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about sleep, light, contentment
She only is chaste, who is chaste where there is no danger of detection: she who does not, because she may not, does.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about danger
Riches too increase, and the maddening craving for gold, So that men ever seek for more, that they may have the most.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about wealth, man
Neither shall the wave, which has passed on, ever be recalled; nor can the hour, which has once fled by, return again.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin
Treat your friends as if hereafter they will become your enemies, and your enemies as if they will become your friends.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about enemies
A swarm in May is worth a load of hay; a swarm in June is worth a silver spoon; but a swarm in July is not worth a fly.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin
Bright enough in the dark, dull in time of day. [Learned in what is of no use, ignorant of everything at all available. ]
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about dark, use, time, day
Whose interest was it? To whose prejudice was it? [Who might expect to derive benefit, or injury, from a crime committed? ]
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about prejudice, interest, crime, criminals
Injuries, when treated with contempt, vanish and have no effect. If you show anger their effect would appear to be acknowledged.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about contempt, anger, contentment
'Tis gold Which makes the true man killed, and saves the thief; Nay, sometimes hangs both thief and true man; what Can it not do, and undo?
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about thieves, man
