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Funny Sayings
A loaded wagon creaks; an empty one rattles.
A loan is like rice eaten. It is soon forgotten.
A lock is better than suspicion.
A lock is meant only for honest men.
A lofty thing fears being made equal with a lower.
A lonely person is at home everywhere.
A long journey tests a horse; a long-drawn-out conflict tests a friendship.
A long life has many shames.
A long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long enough.
A long love, a severe bondage.
A long march starts from the very first step.
A long pull and a strong pull and a pull altogether.
A long road tests the mettle of a horse; a big task tests the strength of a man
A long tongue betokens a short hand.
A long tongue is the staircase by which misfortunes ascend.
A lord without land is like a cask without wine.
A lordly taste make a beggar’s purse.
A louse cannot lift the eiderdown.
A lovelorn cook over-salts the porridge.
A love-marriage is not without problems.
A lover loves one day, a mother all her life.
A lover should be regarded as a person demented.
A lover’s anger is short-lived.
A loving man, a jealous man.
A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
A lucky man’s first child is a daughter.
A lucky person is someone who plants pebbles and harvests potatoes.
A mad bull is not to be tied up with packthread.
A mad dog cannot live long.
A mad parish, a mad priest.
A madman is like a man who is absent.
A madman is punished by his madness.
A maid marries according to the will of her parents; a widow decides her marriage by herself.
A maid who laughs is half taken.
A maiden marries to please her parents, a widow to please herself.
A maker of idols is never an idolater.
A malignant sore throat is a danger; a malignant throat not sore is worse.
A man accustomed to hardships will not mind a little more.
A man as he manages himself may die old at thirty, or young at eighty.
A man assailed is half overcome.
A man at five may be a fool at fifteen.
A man at forty is youthful as a flower, but a woman at forty resembles an old potsherd in the sweepings.
A man at sixteen will prove a child at sixty.
