World Proverbs - page 9

When money is talking, the rest of the world shuts up. (German Proverb)
So it goes in the world: one has the purse, the other has the gold. View proverb
German Proverb
Take the world as it is, not as it ought to be. View proverb
German Proverb
There is nothing in the world so poor as going to hell. View proverb
Irish Proverb
The world would not make a racehorse of a donkey. View proverb
Irish Proverb
If you come up in this world, be sure not to go down in the next. View proverb
Irish Proverb
We come into this world crying while all around us are smiling. May we so live that we go out of this world smiling while everybody around us is weeping. View proverb
Persian Proverb
Be not all sugar, or the world will swallow you up; be not all wormwood, or the world will spit you out. View proverb
Persian Proverb
All the world will beat the man whom fortune buffets. View proverb
Portuguese Proverb
Once out of the throat it spreads over the world. View proverb
Hindi Proverb
"Yes" and "no" govern the world. (Italian Proverb)
Who has a tongue in his head can go all the world over. View proverb
Italian Proverb
Wealth conquered Rome after Rome had conquered the world. View proverb
Italian Proverb
To go safely through the world you must have the eye of a falcon, the ear of an ass, the face of an ape, the mouth of a pig, the shoulders of a camel, and the legs of a deer. To have "Heard say” is half a lie. View proverb
Italian Proverb
The world is like a staircase; some go up, others go down. View proverb
Italian Proverb
The world is for him who has patience. View proverb
Italian Proverb
The world wags on with three things: doing, undoing, and pretending. View proverb
Italian Proverb
To save one man is like saving the world. View proverb
Jewish Proverb
The world exists on three things: truth, justice, and peace. View proverb
Jewish Proverb
The world is in the hands of fools. View proverb
Jewish Proverb
A man too good for the world is no good for his wife. (Jewish Proverb)
The world is a tavern and the way hereafter is our home. View proverb
Jewish Proverb
There is not only one pied dog in the world. View proverb
Hungarian Proverb
The world stands to those who have eyes. View proverb
Hungarian Proverb
No man is born into the world, whose work is not born with him. View proverb
Romanian Proverb