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Best Funny Sayings
‘A beauty in ugly clothes is still a beauty’
Uzbek Proverb
‘A mother hears the cries of her child from the grave’
Ossetian Proverb
‘A mother’s back sins when it is seated’
Rundi Proverb
‘A prostitute does not recommend marriage’
Wolof Proverb
‘A tooth, sharpened for the daughter-in-law, will bite the son’
Chechen Proverb
‘Beauty of the mountains is in the stones; beauty of the head is in the hair’
Turkmen Proverb
‘Covered with a veil everyone is handsome’
Azeri Proverb
‘Do not say too many bad things about the wife you cannot divorce’
Adyg Proverb
‘If a girl says no to marriage, just wait for her breasts to sag’
Rundi Proverb
‘If a nubile girl is exchanged for an old woman, there must be a reason’
Minyanka Proverb
‘If a wife has kicked her co-wife, it is on the husband’s shoulder she has found support’
Fulfulde Proverb
‘If you dance with your co-wife, don’t close your eyelid’
Rundi Proverb
‘Marrying several wives is human; having many children is divine’
Sumerian Proverb
‘May Inanna pour oil on my heart that aches.’
Sumerian Proverb
‘The back of a mother got bent when her son got married, but is erect again, when her daughter marries’
Chechen Proverb
‘The wife ignores that her husband is chief’
Mossi Proverb
‘When a woman’s rival dies, she is no longer interested in her’
Wolof Proverb
‘While gnawing the daughter-in-law, the son is consumed’
Awar Proverb
‘You measure some flour for your co-wife and this flour makes your husband spend the night with her’
Rundi Proverb
‘Your son shall be the way you raise him to be, your husband shall be the way he was raised to be’
Adyg Proverb
’Tis a poor heart that never rejoices.
African Proverb
’Tis a shameful sight when children of one family fall out, chide, and fight.
African Proverb
’Tis the first step that is difficult.
African Proverb
’Tis the last straw that breaks the camel’s back.
African Proverb
A 1000 miles journey starts with a single step.
Australian Aboriginal Proverb
A baby cannot be heard crying in his mother's womb.
Bamfinu Proverb
a baby to be treated tenderly
Afrikaans Proverb
A bad name is like a stigma.
South Sotho Proverb
A bad speaker makes a long speech.
African Proverb
A bad wife is a lifelong death.
African Proverb
A bear that dances in your neighbor's house might soon dance in yours.
Macedonian Proverb
A beautiful person might not have a beautiful life.
Taiwanese Proverb
A beautiful woman either steals from you or catches you.
Mossi Proverb
A bellowing cow soon forgets its calf.
African Proverb
A bird will always use another birds' feathers to feather its own nest.
South Sotho Proverb
A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives you roses.
African Proverb
A bitter heart devours its owner.
Herero Proverb
A blow is repaid by the like of it, and all that is achieved is a hitting.
Ancient Egyptian Proverb
A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.
Iraqi Proverb
A brave dies but once a coward many times.
Iowa Proverb
Danger past, God forgotten.
African Proverb
Day and night cannot dwell together.
Native American Duwamish Proverb
Death comes to young and old alike.
African Proverb
Death is like a dress that, at some point or another, everyone has to wear.
Mandingo Proverb
Death is nothing and pain is nothing, but cowardice is crime and disgrace, the greatest punishment.
Dakota Proverb
Deeds speak louder than words.
Assiniboine Proverb
Desire of two young lovers, and regret of husband and wife.
Urdu Proverb
Despite your bark, you'll be eaten.
Kamba Proverb
Different courses, different horses.
African Proverb
Diseases enter at the mouth.
African Proverb
Disgrace is a patch, dishonor a hole.
African Proverb
Disgraced like a man whose own pet bites him.
Madagasy Proverb
Distant hills look beautiful; near ones are ugly.
Goan Proverb
Do not answer a fool according to his folly, or you will be like him yourself.
African Proverb
Do not bathe if there is no water.
Shan Proverb
Do not boast about tomorrow, for you know not what the day might bring.
African Proverb
Do not call to a dog with a whip in your hand.
Zululand Proverb
Do not drink water in the house of a merchant: he will charge you for it.
Ancient Egyptian Proverb
Do not exult too much in your victory.
African Proverb
Do not hurt your neighbor, for it is not him you wrong but yourself.
Shawnee Proverb
Do not judge your neighbor until you walk two moons in his moccasins.
Native American Cheyenne Proverb
Do not kick away the canoe which helped you to cross the river.
Madagasy Proverb
Do not leave todays homework for tomorrow.
Omani Proverb
Do not lend three things: power, a wife, a gun.
Fulfulde Proverb
Do not only point out the way, but lead the way.
Native American Sioux Proverb
Do not put your head in front of your words.
Tupuri Proverb
Do not scare the birds you are going to shoot.
Madagasy Proverb
Do not speak of a rhinoceros if there is no tree nearby.
Zulu Proverb
Do not spread your corn to dry at an enemy's door.
Asturian Proverb
Do not stand in a place of danger trusting in miracles.
Asturian Proverb
Do not talk Arabic in the house of a Moor.
Oriental Proverb
Do not treat your loved one like a swinging door: you are fond of it but you push it back and forth.
Madagasy Proverb
Do not try to cook the goat's young in the goat's milk.
Baguirmi Proverb
Do not wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not he that you wrong but yourself.
Native American Pima Proverb
Do not yell "dinner" until your knife is in the loaf.
Canadian Proverb
Do not whirl a snake in the air when you have killed it; the ones which remain in their holes see you.
Tongan Proverb
Do one thing at time, with supreme excellence.
NASA Proverb
Do right and fear no man.
Native American Pima Proverb
Do unto others as you would be done unto.
Native American Pima Proverb
Do unto others as you would they should do unto you.
Native American Pima Proverb
