Proverbs By Language

"Met het fluitken gewonnen, met het trommelken verteerd."

"Twist verguist, eendrecht maakt macht."

"Lieve kinderen krygen lieve naemtjes."

"Hooge klimmers en diepe zwemmers staen meest kwalyk."

"Men moet de huid niet willen verdelen voor dat de beer duud is."

"Gelyken by gelyken ."

"Die noten woll smaken, die moet ze kraken."

"Een blind man schiet somtijds wel een kraai."

"Gebraden patrijsen komen niemand in de mond."

"Men nyght onder den boom, daermen te bet afheeft."

"Ses poies c est des âwes."

"Pus n-y-a-t-i d' cohun divins n'couhenne, pus male est l'sope."

"Qui compte so les solers d on moirt court risse di roter longtimps tot d hâs."

"I vât mi d'esse tot seu qu'és mâle kipagneie."

"In homme prévenu in vaut deux."

"Li pomme ni tomme nin lon de l'souche."

"Charité bin ordonnée comminche pa li même"

"On clâ chesse le a'ute."

"Qui qwire, trouwe."

"Après l ' plaive , i vint l bai timps."

"Quî va douc’mint, va longtimps."

"Rome n a pas été bâtie en un jour."

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"Transliteration: Ling yang tok ton mai."

"Even monkeys can fall off trees."

"English equivalent: Set a beggar on horseback and he'll ride it to the devil."

"A husband loves the charm of the ladles tip until dying."

"English equivaleny: The way to a man's heart is through his stomach."

"Meaning: Anyone can fail."

"Meaning: When a wife cooks well the husband will love her until the end of life."

"Friends for a meal are easy to find, friends until end of life are difficult to find."

"Meaning: It is easy to find good-weather friends in good times but hard to find real friends who stand by you in all situations of life."

"Transliteration: Pheuuan gin haa ngaay pheuuan dtaay haa yaak."

"English equivalent: Remember man and keep in mind: A faithful friend is hard to find."

"Transliteration: Saneh bplaay jawak phuaa rak john dtaay."

"English equivalent: It is a good horse that never stumbles."

"English equivalent: There is no accounting for taste."

"The true barbarian is he who thinks every thing barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices."

"William Hazlitt, in Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)"

"All sorts of mind."

"There are no secrets except the secrets that keep themselves."

"George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah (1921)"

"Transliteration: Nam khun hai reeb tak"

"Transliteration: Na na jit tung."

"English equivalent: An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure."

"Transliteration: Kwam lub mai mee nai loke."

"There are no secrets in the world."

"Preventive measure is better than curative measure."

"A rabbit aims for the moon."

"Transliteration: Kra-tie' mai jhun."