Here I’ll be listing all the proverbs and sayings that I receive on postcards via the Postcrossing project
. Thank you everyone who has sent me these cards, and everyone who will, too!
- Älä anna auringon laskea vihasi ylle — Do not let the sun set over your anger
- Joka väärin kuulee, se väärin vastaa — He who hears wrong answers wrong
- Ei savua ilman tulta — No smoke without fire
- Nopeat syövät hitaat — Early bird gets a worm
- Time heals all wounds
- Hädässä ystävä tunnetaan — A friend in need is a friend indeed
- Es gießt wie aus Eimern — It’s raining cats and dogs
- Reden ist Silber, Schweigen ist Gold — Talk is silver, silence is gold
- Mindenütt jó, de legjobb otthon — There’s no place like home
- בעזרת השמ — With G-d’s help
- Un tiens vaut mieux que deux tu l’auras — Better one ‘Here you are’ than two ‘You’ll have it later’
- Jos ei viina, terva ja sauna auta, niin sitten kaivetaan hauta — If neither sauna, nor tar or liquor helps, we need to dig a grave
- Wie schrijft, blijft — Who writes, remains
- Hunde, die bellen, beißen nicht — Dogs that bark do not bite
- Julge hundi rind on rasvane — A brave wolf gets the butter
- Töö kiidab tegijat — The work thanks the one who does it
- Usko itseesi, vuoret sürtyvät — When you trust yourself, you can move the mountains
- Auch ein blindes Huhn findet mal ein Korn — Even a blind hen sometimes finds a grain
- Ei tippa tapa — One drop doesn’t kill
- Camaron que duerme, se lo lleva la corriente — A sleeping shrimp gets carried away by the current
- 顔で笑って、心で泣く (kao de waratte, kokoro de naku) — With a smiling face and a crying heart
- Ei nimi miestä pahenna, jos ei mies nimeä — Your name won’t make you bad if you won’t make it bad
- Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam — Carthage, methinks, ought utterly to be destroyed
- Diviser pour mieux reigner — Divide and rule
- Tell me whom you love, and I’ll tell you who you are
- Ken kuuseen kurkottaa, se katajaan kapsahtaa” — Who reaches for the spruce, falls down onto the juniper
- Parempi virsta väärään kuin vaaksa vaaraan — Better a verst into the wrong [direction], than a span into danger
- Arjessakin on taikaa ja kimallusta. On vain katsottava tarpeeksi tarkkaan ja. — There is magic and sparkle in everyday life too. You just have to look closely enough and enjoy every moment
- Tanto va el cántaro al agua hasta que se rompe — The jug goes for water so often that it breaks [All abuse gets stopped at one time or another]
- Was Du heute kannst besorgen, das verschiebe nicht auf morgen” — Don’t leave for tomorrow what you can do today
- Was Du heute kannst besorgen, das verschieb’ auf übermorgen — What can be done today, leave till the day after tomorrow
- Kiru ennast, mitte päikest, et sinu aed ei õitse — Curse yourself, not the sun, if your garden doesn’t blossom
- Parempi karvas totuus kuin makea valhe — Bitter truth is better than sweet lie
- Don’t sweat the petty things, and don’t pet the sweaty things
- Birds of a feather flock together
- Se, että minä olen väärässä, ei tarkoita sitä, että sinä olet oikeassa — The fact that I’m wrong doesn’t mean that you’re right.
- Qui ne tente rien, n’a rien — Who doesn’t try anything, gets nothing
- Gai ngaam phraw khohn, khohn ngaam phraw dtaeng — Fine feathers make fine birds, the tailor makes the man
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