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Funny Sayings
A crow is never the whiter for being washed.
A crow that imitates the cormorant gets drowned.
A crowd is not company.
A crowd of fellow-sufferers is a miserable kind of comfort.
A crown is no cure for the headache.
A crumb is also bread.
A cup of wine is medicine, a gallon of wine is ruin.
A cur’s tail grows fast.
A curious woman is capable of turning around the rainbow just to see what is on the other side.
A curious woman is capable of up-turning the rainbow to find out what’s underneath.
A curse returns threefold.
A curse will not strike out an eye, unless the fist go with it.
A cutting word is worse than a bowstring: a cut may heal, but the cut of the tongue does not.
A cypher and humility make the other figures & virtues of ten-fold value.
A dagger can be concealed in a smile.
A daily guest is a thief in the kitchen.
A dainty stomach empties the purse.
A danger foreseen is half avoided.
A dark night has no witnesses.
A daughter is more beautiful than her beautiful mother.
A daughter-in-law’s mourning for her mother-in-law is false and feigned.
A day is long but a lifetime is short.
A day of grief lasts longer than a month of joy.
A day of reading is a day of gain; a day without reading is ten days of loss.
A day of sorrow is longer than a month of joy.
A dead man and an uninvited guest smell after three days.
A dead man does not make war.
A dead man does not speak.
A dead man has neither relations nor friends.
A dead man is mourned seven days, a fool for his lifetime.
A dead mouse feels no cold.
A dead songbird gives us no meat.
A deaf husband and a blind wife make a happy couple.
A dealer in onions is a good judge of scallions.
A dealer in rubbish sings the praises of rubbish.
A debt is not paid with words.
A debtor is a slave.
A deceiver deals in generalities.
A defeated wrestler is not tired of wrestling.
A delegate cannot delegate.
A deliberate inaction is better than a blind action.
A demon is not entitled to forgiveness.
A depraved mind never comes to good.
