Proverb
Proverb
A proverb is a simple and concrete statement popularly known and repeated, that expresses a truth based on common sense or experience...
fair three women
Three women, three geese, and three frogs, make a fair
goose market three women
A market is three women and a goose
tail tongue women
A woman's tongue wags like a lamb's tail
buried house married three woman women
A woman is to be from her house three times; when she is christened, married and buried
alone belong dignity leave pride women
Pride and dignity would belong to women if only men would leave them alone
arrive travel
It is better to travel than to arrive
bad command fires soldier word zeal
Too much zeal is a bad soldier who fires before the word of command
friend nor trust
Trust not a new friend nor an old enemy.
wrong
He who oweth is all in the wrong
heals lie truth
Better a lie which heals than a truth which wounds.
far few teeth trouble
May your trouble be like the old man's teeth - few and far between
midnight sleep three
One hour's sleep before midnight is better than three after it
expense laugh price raised smiles
The price of a laugh is too high, if it is raised at the expense of another
sharper sweeter wine
The sharper is the berry, the sweeter is the wine