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You can get farther with a friendly word than with a club.

Proverbs and old sayings Ukrainian about word, contentment

The word enough does not exist for water, fire, and women.

Proverbs and old sayings Ukrainian about word, fire, fire brigade, water

When you enter a great enterprise, free your soul from weakness.

Proverbs and old sayings Ukrainian about weakness, soul, contentment

If you marry a young woman, make sure your friends stay outside.

Proverbs and old sayings Ukrainian about woman, contentment

A woman is not a harmonica that you put aside when you have used it.

Proverbs and old sayings Ukrainian about woman, contentment

If you chase two hares at the same time, you will catch neither of them.

Proverbs and old sayings Ukrainian about trap, time, contentment

You don't really see the world if you only look through your own window.

Proverbs and old sayings Ukrainian about world, contentment

Drink a glass of wine after your soup and you will be stealing a ruble from the doctor.

Proverbs and old sayings Ukrainian about thieves, drinking, wine, contentment

Love tells us many things that are not so.

Proverbs and old sayings Ukrainian about things, love

The hardest work is to go idle.

Proverbs and old sayings about work

The most beautiful fig may contain a worm.

Proverbs and old sayings

The nut doesn't reveal the tree it contains.

Proverbs and old sayings

Tickle it with a hoe and it will laugh into a harvest.

Proverbs and old sayings

The garden must be prepared in the soul first or else it will not flourish.

Proverbs and old sayings about soul, garden

The plum tree, dwindling, contains less of the spring; But the garden is wider, and holds more of the moon.

Proverbs and old sayings about spring, moon, garden

The nail that sticks out is hammered down. [More about the need for conformity than about tools, although conformity is a tool of society. ]

Proverbs and old sayings about tools, society, need

Tis better to buy a small bouquet And give to your friend this very day, Than a bushel of roses white and red To lay on his coffin after he's dead.

Proverbs and old sayings about commerce, day

The root of all health is in the brain. The trunk of it is in emotion. The branches and leaves are the body. The flower of health blooms when all parts work together.

Proverbs and old sayings about emotions, brain, garden, body, work

You don't study to be a fool.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

Gifts break rocks and melt hearts.

Proverbs and old sayings about rocks, gifts