- Advice is a free gift that can become expensive for the one who gets it.
- A girl with a golden cradle doesn’t remain long in her father’s house.
- All men have three ears, one on the left of his head, one on the right and one in his heart.
- All riches come from the earth.
- Always tell the truth in the form of a joke.
- A pain in the foot is soon forgotten — a pain in the head is not.
- Ashamed of what she sees in the daytime the sun sets with a blush.
- As mills require two stones, so friendship requires two heads.
- At death’s door a man will beg for the fever.
- A woman is like the moon-some nights it is silver others gold.
- Before the fat one slims, the slim one will die.
- Better to be an ant’s head than a lion’s tail.
- Birds are caught with seed, men with money.
- Bread and cheese, eat and dance.
- Chicks ought to be counted in the fall.
- Choose a friend with the eyes of an old man, and a horse with the eyes of a young one.
- Clouds that thunder do not always rain.
- Dine with a friend but do not do business with him.
- Dogs that fight each other will join forces against the wolf.
- First think, then speak.
- Fortune visits only once.
- Friendship is not born of words alone.
- Give a horse to the one who likes the truth so that on it he can escape.
- He’s looking for the donkey while sitting on it.
- He who looks for a friend without a fault will never find one.
- He who speaks a lot learns little.
- If a rich man dies, all the world is moved; if a poor man dies, nobody knows it.
- If a woman hears that something unusual is going on in heaven, she would find a ladder to go and look.
- If you cannot become rich, be the neighbor of a rich man.
- Lamb in the spring, snow in the winter.
- Love did not grow any garlic.
- Quiet horses kick the hardest.
- The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.
- The bee gets honey from the same flower where the snake sucks her poison.
- The butterfly who settles on a branch is afraid that he will break it.
- The eagle was killed by an arrow made from its own feathers.
- The only sword that never rests is the tongue of a woman.
- The sun won’t stay behind the cloud.
- The tongue of the fool is always long.
- The voice of the people is louder than the boom of a canon.
- The woman who loves her husband corrects his faults; the man that loves his wife exaggerates them.
- The world agrees in one word, time is golden.
- The world is a pot, man but a spoon in it.
- They asked a bullfrog, “Why do you croak all the time?” He replied, “I’m enchanted with my voice
- Thunder clouds do not always give rain.
- To ask a favor from a miser is like trying to make a hole in water.
- To pick up in a clumsy way is stealing, to steal in a skillful way is to pick up.
- When asked, “What news from the sea?” The fish replied “I have a lot to say, but my mouth is full of water
- When one can’t achieve something downplays it.
- When the axe came to the forest, the trees said: “The handle is one of us.”
- When the thief has stolen from a thief, God laughs in heaven.
- When they gave the donkey flowers to smell, he ate them.
- When you are asleep, your luck works out for you.
- When your fortune improves, the columns of your house appear to be crooked.
- Where is there a tree not shaken by the wind?
- While they are reading the Bible to the wolf, it says: hurry up, my flock is leaving.
- Whoever drinks on credit gets drunk more quickly.
- You are as many a person as languages you know.
- You cannot hit the point of a needle with a fist.
- You don’t satisfy your hunger by watching others work.
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