Search in folklore: years, page 5

147 results

A man is as wise as his head, not his years.

Proverbs and old sayings about heads, man

A cup of coffee commits one to forty years of friendship.

Proverbs and old sayings about friendship

Thus years glide by.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

Even light takes a decade to travel ten light-years.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about light

You should know a man seven years before you stir his fire.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about fire, fire brigade, contentment, man

That fair face will as years roll on lose its beauty, and old age will bring its wrinkles to the brow.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about olderness, beauty, age, face, old

After taking ninety-nine years to climb a stairway, the tortoise falls and says there is a curse on haste.

Proverbs and old sayings Maltese

Maturity comes from wisdom not in the passing of years.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about wisdom

A man's servant can live for a hundred years; the slave of a woman dies in six months.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about woman, man

Thief who steals thief has one hundred years of pardon.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about thieves

The thief who steals another one is forgiven for 100 years.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about thieves

It will be all one a thousand years hence.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian

It will be all the same a hundred years hence.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian

It chances in an hour, that happens not in seven years.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about chance

Wait three years for promised.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian

They wait three years for what was promised.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian

A jug that has been mended lasts two hundred years.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian

One day before you is better than ten years behind you.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about day, contentment

Ane year a Nurish, seven years a Daw.

Proverbs and old sayings

Horns an' grey hair dinna aye come o' years.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish