Proverbs Page 7
- A misty winter brings a pleasant spring, a pleasant winter a misty spring
- Many a sudden change takes place on a spring day
- In winter the milk goes to the cow's horns
- A secret is a weapon and a friend
- It is no secret that is known to three
- Fences (ditches) have ears
- Don't tell your secret even to a fence
- Woe to the man that entrusts his secrets to a ditch
- The secret of an old woman scolding
- If it's a secret, it's binding
- Don't tell secrets to the children of your relatives
- No tree but has rotten wood enough to burn it
- A man may be his own ruin
- A wedge from itself splits the oak tree
- A man has often cut a rod to beat himself
- It's for her own good that the cat purrs
- His own wound is what everyone feels soonest
- What is nearest the heart is nearest the mouth
- He who is best for me is he who shall get the best share
- The full stomach does not understand the empty one
- The man who was dividing Ireland didn't leave himself last
- Sense doesn't come before age
- After the gathering comes the scattering
- What would shame him would turn back a funeral
- A list full of gain and a village full of shame
- Better is the trouble that follows death than the trouble that follows shame
- Do not keep your tongue under your belt
- A man is shy in another man's corner
- A silent mouth is musical
- The silent are often guilty
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