Famous Proverbs
264 Proverbs about Ward / Page 20
191.
The hand of each saint inclines towards himself.192.
He treads downwards, on his subordinates and bows upwards, before his superiors.193.
There is a way upwards and downwards too.194.
A wayward woman is like the weaver bird. She uses her perch on one tree to scout other trees.195.
He that takes all his geir fra himself, and gives it to his bairns, it were weil ward to take a mell and knock out his hairns.196.
A coward always hides behind someone else after he has thrown a stone.197.
A cowardly hyena lives longer.198.
A man who is patient is rewarded.199.
He who cannot rest, cannot work; he who cannot let go, cannot hold on; he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward.200.
It is in the house of a coward that people gather and point to the tomb of yesterday's warrior.