Proverb
Proverb
A proverb is a simple and concrete statement popularly known and repeated, that expresses a truth based on common sense or experience...
hopes
What one hopes for is always better than what one has
barrel
What is in a barrel will not go sour.
cloak drinker generally good
Under a tattered cloak you will generally find a good drinker
man mature running twenty
Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man /and after that, praying.
proverbs twelve
Twelve highlanders and a bagpipe make a rebellion.
act determined remains
To him who is determined it remains only to act
children lifetime
You have a lifetime to work, but children are only young once.
happen life
You have to take life as it happens, but you should try to make it happen the way you want to take it
What Hans does not learn, Hans does not know.
account fear whose
What fear has he whose account is clean?
breaks moment
What breaks in a moment may take years to mend.
time
What can be done at any time is never done at all
fate fish lucky man throw
Throw a lucky man into the sea, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth.
barrel empty plenty sound
There is plenty of sound in an empty barrel