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| Proverbs |
The Cypriots and Greeks have a proverb for every occasion.
To the English speaker they seem amusing after translation.
There are many wise words in
the sayings below.
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Welcome is the best cheer.
In hospitality it is the spirit that counts. It is the men who makes a city. A miser is ever in want. You wash a dog, you bathe a dog, it still smells like a dog Don't hear one and judge two. Men never moan over the opportunities lost to do good, only the opportunities to be bad. The shepherd, even when he becomes a gentleman, smells of lamb. You can not straighten the tail of a dog The silence of a treacherous man is to be feared even more than his words. Thinking evil is much the same as doing it. You inherited a dog? Human from pedigree and dog from pound A dog who doesn't bite, let him bark I talk to my dog and my dog talks to his tail A small evil may be a great good. The cat who sleeps all day does not catch a mouse A word out of season may mar a whole lifetime. Act quickly, think slowly. Add not fire to fire. Affairs sleep soundly when fortune is present. A dog who is not interested is not going to catch the rabbit Endeavour to bear the ignorance of fortune with patience. He wants the whole loaf of bread and the dog fed First secure an independent income, then practice virtue Great abilities produce great vices as well as virtues He who has been angry becomes cool again. He who laughs not in the morning, laughs not at noon. Hunger is the teacher of many. I live too near a wood to be scared by owls. If the sun shines while it rains, the devil is beating his mother. |
Men who have lost heart never yet won a trophy.
The lamb has the name and the kid (young goat) has the taste Milk the cow, but do not pull off the udder. Poor men's words have little weight. Seize the end and you will hold the middle. The child who gets a stepmother also gets a stepfather. The mills of the gods grind slowly, but they grind exceeding small. The net of the sleeper catches fish. As the shepherd sleeps, the farther the goats wander off The old cats like the young mice There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip. We look like the wet cat Those who are thirsty drink in silence. To the brave man every land is a native country. The cat hides her kittens in seven different places With a relation eat and drink; but conduct no business with him. Wood that grows warped can never be straightened. Young wood makes a hot fire. The cat says, God blind my master so that I can take all the food; the dog says, God keep my master healthy so he can give me enough food to eat The man who had ten goats did not go hungry, the man who had ten cows for plowing went hungry He is following me like a kid (baby goat) He doesn't know how to split the bail of hay between two donkeys The donkey told the rooster that he has a big head Others are born by a mother, we are born by a donkey Whoever takes someone else's donkey gets stranded in the middle of the way What do you want with the kid with you Men prone to tears are good. Neither promise wax to the saint, nor cakes to the child. Nothing will content him who is not content with a little. In baiting a mousetrap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse. |