Famous Proverbs
4831 Proverbs about Ther / Page 281
2801.
If a child is not well-behaved, she is not sent by the mother to go alone to the market to buy things for her.2802.
Beetles that roll balls out of human faeces demand to be hidden away from the rich man, because there is nothing he wouldn't buy.2803.
When a woman prepares a dish which others find unpalatable, she says that she prepared it to suit her own taste.2804.
A lizard that fell from the top of a tree wastes its time looking back to where it fell from; if there was anything good the lizard deserved, it could not have missed it while it was there on top of the tree.2805.
The glow-works light the nights, but more so the night that their mother prepares porridge.2806.
It is usual of a person found guilty in a trial to boast that he would press his case further.2807.
A bird will always use another birds' feathers to feather its own nest.2808.
A person is a person because of other persons.2809.
Beggars can't be choosers. For a good appetite there is no hard bread.2810.
As soon as one goes out the window, another comes in the door.