In thy home be joyous and generous to guests discreet shalt thou be in thy bearing.
Proverbs and old sayings about home
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In sweet converse call the righteous to thy side, learn a healing song while thou livest.
Proverbs and old sayings about conversation
Two heads cut off and thrown high into the tree have only the winds with which to scheme..
Proverbs and old sayings about heads
With his ears let him listen, and look with his eyes; thus each wise man spies out the way.
Proverbs and old sayings about eyes, man
Cattle die and kinsmen die, thyself too soon must die, but one thing never, I ween, will die, The doom on each one dead.
Proverbs and old sayings about death, things
Praise day at even, a wife when dead, a weapon when tried, a maid when married, ice when 'tis crossed, and ale when 'tis drunk.
Proverbs and old sayings about praise, wife, day
If haply a fool should find for himself wealth or a woman's love, pride waxes in him but wisdom never and onward he fares in his folly.
Proverbs and old sayings about proudness, wealth, wisdom, woman, love
He that learns naught will never know how one is the fool of another, for if one be rich another is poor and for that should bear no blame.
Proverbs and old sayings about wealth
The foolish man lies awake all night Thinking of his many problems; When the morning comes he is worn out And his trouble is just as it was.
Proverbs and old sayings about problems, thinking, night, man
Be not a shoemaker nor yet a shaft maker save for thyself alone: let the shoe be misshapen, or crooked the shaft, and a curse on thy head will be called.
Proverbs and old sayings about heads
Less good than they say for the sons of men is the drinking oft of ale: for the more they drink, the less can they think and keep a watch o'er their wits.
Proverbs and old sayings about drinking, man, good, good luck
The speech of a maiden should no man trust nor the words which a woman says; for their hearts were shaped on a whirling wheel and falsehood fixed in their breasts.
Proverbs and old sayings about lie, word, woman, man
Those who waste time only hurt themselves.
Proverbs and old sayings about waste, time
Good actions are nourishment for youths, much more than words.
Proverbs and old sayings about word, good, good luck
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
Proverbs and old sayings about rest, life, day, americans
You cannot weld cake-dough to cast iron, nor a girl to an old man.
Proverbs and old sayings about americans, man, old, olderness, contentment
Time has strong teeth.
Proverbs and old sayings Norwegian about time
Burnt child fears fire.
Proverbs and old sayings Norwegian about children, fire, fire brigade
Better early than late.
Proverbs and old sayings Norwegian
The old are the eldest.
Proverbs and old sayings Norwegian about old, olderness
