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Spanish Proverbs
You surrender your freedom where you deposit your secret.
If you talk too much you're likely to give yourself away.
Happiness itself does not stay only moments of happiness do.
He who fears death cannot enjoy life.
If you want to marry wisely, marry your equal.
Take no notice of the stupid things people say.
If you want to know secrets, seek for them in trouble or in pleasure.
Tell your friend your secret, and he will set his foot on your neck.
When one door shuts, a hundred open.
He who tells his own secret will hardly keep another's.
A beautiful wife without money is like a fine house without furniture.
Look for the good, and let the bad come on its own.
A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will.
Beware of a bad woman, and put no trust in a good one.
Every person is a fool in some person's opinion.
Come live with me and you'll know me.
Love can do much, money can do everything.
The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller but one.
It is better if they say, He ran away here. than ..He died here.
Sleep is the best cure for waking troubles.
If a job is worth doing, it's worth doing well.
He who lives a long life must pass through much evil.
The more a woman admires her face, the more she ruins her house.
A woman and a glass are always in danger.
He who knows how to live, knows enough.
Give me a seat, and I will make myself room to lie down.
He who denies everything confesses everything.
The judge's son goes into the courtroom without fear.
The woman who dresses well attracts the husband from another woman's door.
Swedish Proverb Sayings
Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief.
We note the faults of others and forget our own.
Being young is a fault which improves daily.
Envy is the truest form of flattery.
Who is insulted for a long time, finally loses his patience.
Don't let your sorrow come higher than your knees.
It's not the fault of one, that two are fighting.
When the sea is calm, every ship has a good captain.
Another's damage is soon forgotten,
A hardworking man is better than a crowd of loafers.
We are esteemed and treated by the company we keep.
Swiss Proverbs
It is easier to criticize than to do better.
You learn through mistakes, no one was born a master
When a neighbor gets divorced everyone thinks of his own wife.
Tanzanian Proverbs
We start as fools and become wise through experience.
If you refuse the elder's advice you will walk the whole day.
A person who is not disciplined cannot be cautioned.
Swahili Proverbs
Patience attracts happiness, it brings near that which is far.
Life can be understood backwards, but we live it forwards
A thief is a rogue but the one who repays is a gentleman.
Where there are experts there will be no lack ot learners.
Talk of the devil, and you'll hear the rustle of his wings.
Sudanese Proverbs
Our wasted days are the days we never laugh.
God is a great eye. He sees everything in the world.
A friend who visits you when you are suffering is your best friend.
Somali Proverbs
To be without knowledge is to be without light.
The bridge is repaired only after someone falls in the water.
He who takes responsibility becomes the target of the people.
The most dangerous thing a man needs is woman.
A brave man dies once, a coward a thousand times.
Dogs understand each other by their barking, and men by their words.
He is a fool who marries an old woman without teeth.
The person who does not listen to an elder's advice gets his or her leg broken.
Slovenian Proverbs
Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.
What you build easily will fall quickly.
Who is forced to go to church will not pray.
Man's life is like a drop of dew on a leaf.
Whoever speaks a great deal, knows much or lies much.
Slovak Proverbs
Anger is the only thing to put off till tomorrow.
Kill your anger while it is small.
The gates of hell are always open, even at midnight.
The one who first shuts up in an argument is from a good family.
Who buys cheap pays twice.
The darkness is deepest under the candle.
There is no wise response to a foolish remark.
Sicilian Proverbs
Where you're not known, you're judged by your appearance.
It's useless to change your state, if you don't have luck in your favor.
Do good and forget it, do bad and think about it.
When you lose friends, you go down many steps.
Avoid the bad, love the good, because things change in a moment.
If you don't have money, you're not worth listening to.
Believe only a little of what you see and nothing that you hear.
When a rich man comes to bad times, he doesn't know what to do.
If you want to have a happy life, stay far away from your relatives.
Death finds everyone and the earth renews itself.
A woman and the wind change every moment.
Love is bitter, but it comforts the heart.
Honesty and kindness enhance every beauty.
Marriage and maids, don't suggest them because you'll be cursed.
The richer you are, the more troubles you have.
A smart man doesn't give his wife a lot of freedom.
Death respects neither young nor old, neither poor nor rich.
When it's seen, there's no need for proof.
Marry your children with their peers so you won't regret it someday.
Being in love with a married woman is living on borrowed time.
Among friends and relatives don't buy or sell anything.
Who is defeated by words is not always convinced by the truth.
Don't fight with someone who has nothing to lose.
Better to have a good friend than a bad relative.
The promises of love and the smoke of a chimney, washed by water and blown away by the wind.
Who rids himself of his own freedom, always finds himself with worry and pain.
Serbian Proverbs
If you humble yourself too much, you will get trampled on.
Even the devil knows what is right, but he will not do it.
Time builds castles, and time destroys them.
One devil does not scratch out another devil's eyes.
A good reputation is better than a golden girdle.
Money and the devil know no rest.
Believing is easier than investigating.
There's nothing worse than a person looking for a quarrel.
A man without enemies is worthless.
Jealousy and fear have big eyes.
It is difficult to find a man but it's easy to recognize him.
Senegalese Proverbs
If the eye do not admire, the heart will not desire.
Lies that build are better than truths that destroy.
An intelligent foe is better than a stupid friend.
There can be no peace without understanding.
Poverty is an older daughter of laziness.
To spend the night in anger is better than to spend it repenting.
Best Scottish Proverbs and Sayings
A proud mind and an empty purse gree ill thegither.
Be happy while you're living, For you're a long time dead.
False friends are worse than bitter enemies.
Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.
Do not speak about a thing, or wish it done, but do it.
Never marry for money. You can borrow it cheaper.
Don't be so busy that you have no time to get rich.
Samoan Proverbs
May your mind be like cool water.
Stones decay words last.
Sin is carried in the mouth.
A careless person will be taken by surprise by his watchful enemy.
It grew in the bush, but it is cast away in the road.
We must be of one mind in the undertaking.
A decision made at night may be changed in the morning.
One good turn deserves another.
Russian Proverbs
Everything is funny as long as it happens to someone else.
The person afraid of bad luck will never know good.
Beauty is the sister of idleness and the mother of luxury.
We do not care of what we have, but we cry when it is lost.
Success and rest don't sleep together.
A bad rumour flies on wings.
Be wise, but pretend to be ignorant.
One good daughter is worth seven sons.
Better to turn back than to lose your way.
Success has many fathers, while failure is an orphan.
A woman's tongue is longer than her hair.
When money talks, then truth stays silent.
A wise man sees only water in the tears of a woman.
It's better to see once than hear a hundred times.
Romanian Proverbs
Patience is a remedy for every grief.
The bird is known by his note, the man by his words.
He that commits a fault thinks everyone speaks of it.
The luck of idle men sits next to them.
There is a time to be born, and a time to die.
A secret is too little for one, enough for two, too much for three.
Lend your money and lose your friend.
We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.
Make new friends but keep the old.
The eyes have one language everywhere.
If you have no enemies it's a sign fortune has forgot you.
Give a man luck and cast him into the sea.
Love is sweet in the beginning but sour in the ending.
People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
A man without money is no man at all.
One father can support ten children; ten children cannot support one father.
The rich man makes mistakes and the poor men get the blame.
Puerto Rican Proverbs
He who has servants has unavoidable enemies.
There is a great distance between said and done.
A good beginning is half the work done.
It is not enough for a man to know how to ride, he must also know how to fall..
Portuguese Proverbs
Where you tell your secret you surrender your freedom.
If marriage were a good thing, it wouldn't need witnesses.
Good news is rumoured and bad news flies.
Let every man mind his own business, and leave others to theirs.
Tell your friend your secret, and he will set his foot on your neck.
Not much can be done when everyone is giving orders.
Money is not gained by losing time.
Promising is not giving, but serves to content fools.
In a quarrel between a husband and his wife, keep away.
Woman, wind, and luck soon change.
Trust not a new friend or an old enemy.
Change yourself, and your luck will change.
It is well to know how to be silent till it is time to speak.
If you want good advice, consult an old man.
The lucky man has a daughter for his first born.
The man of sense does not hang up his knowledge.
No woman is ugly if she is well dressed.
If you have a friend who is a doctor, then send him to your enemy's house.
Give orders, and do it yourself, and you will be rid of anxiety.
Don't leave for tomorrow what you can do today.
Polish Proverbs
The woman cries before the wedding and the man after.
Time has no respect for beauty.
When I had money everyone called me brother.
Truth will take you everywhere even to jail.
What reaches the mother's heart will only reach the father's knees.
A pretty person looks pretty in every clothing.
Where devil cannot go, he will send a woman.
The devil can swallow a woman but he can't digest her.
Eagles fly alone, but sheep flock together.
Where two are fighting, a third one wins.
In a game it's difficult to know when to stop.
The world is a big place but there is so little room in it.
When a man hurries, the devil smiles.
You have a lifetime to work, but children are only young once.
Persian Proverbs
Learn good manners from those who don't have them.
Whatever I disliked, happened to me.
A blind man who sees is better than a sighted man who is blind.
Every tear has a smile behind it.
Forgiveness hides a pleasure that you can't get back from revenge.
What the thief stole has always been called expensive.
He who has been bitten by a snake fears a piece of string.
A beggar will always be a beggar even if they give him the whole world as a gift.
If the teacher be corrupt, the world will be corrupt.
Do not use words that are too big for your mouth.
A man's servant can live for a hundred years; the slave of a woman dies in six months.
