Proverb
Proverb
A proverb is a simple and concrete statement popularly known and repeated, that expresses a truth based on common sense or experience...
heroes kings soldiers
The soldiers fight, and the kings are heroes
longer power rest smallest
Give up the smallest part of a secret, and the rest is no longer in your power
gate speakers-and-speaking three tongue words
The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.
knows says
Like a parakeet, that says what he knows but doesn't know what he says
trap
I don't want the cheese, I just want to get out of the trap
donkey foot hit twice
A donkey usually does not hit his foot twice to the same stone.
burden light shoulder
The burden is light on the shoulder of another
donkey
The world would not make a racehorse of a donkey
feared sword tongue
The tongue is more to be feared than the sword
daily mind needs watch
Man's mind is a watch that needs winding daily
cannibals foolish land visit
Only the foolish visit the land of the cannibals
hart help mouth sugar
If your hart is bitter, sugar in your mouth will not help
beneath famous stone woman zone
Beneath this stone I lie, the famous woman who loosed her zone to one man only
beard goats preach
If the beard were all, goats could preach