Faroese Proverbs (74 Proverbs)
- An eager dog often gets a torn skin.
(Faroese Proverb)
- If a Dane first has come into the room, more Danes will probably follow.
(Faroese Proverb)
- Nobody is to eat the morsel of someone else.
(Faroese Proverb)
- The dog is as his master.
(Faroese Proverb)
- Who fares suitably, gets ahead.
(Faroese Proverb)
- As we are egged on, we rage.
(Faroese Proverb)
- It is a poor mouse that doesn't have more than one hole.
(Faroese Proverb)
- None reaches further than his arms reach.
(Faroese Proverb)
- The food we grow ourselves, is fit.
(Faroese Proverb)
- Who is reared at home fares wrong away from home.
(Faroese Proverb)
- Better be a good man's slave than badly married.
(Faroese Proverb)
- It is best to ask a man who manages on his own.
(Faroese Proverb)
- Nothing is as bad that it isn't good for something.
(Faroese Proverb)
- The knifeless man is a lifeless man.
(Faroese Proverb)
- Who rides first, controls the speed.
(Faroese Proverb)
- Better leave something than eating overly much.
(Faroese Proverb)
- It is better to attract two birds to the nest than one.
(Faroese Proverb)
- Nothing ventured, nothing won.
(Faroese Proverb)
- The one who derides others, gets derided too.
(Faroese Proverb)
- Wool is the gold of the Faroes.
(Faroese Proverb)
- Better to own it than asking your brother for it.
(Faroese Proverb)
- It is good to wait for a man that is alive.
(Faroese Proverb)
- Old ones are good at councelling.
(Faroese Proverb)
- The thief believes that everybody steals.
(Faroese Proverb)
- You can take the ox to the river, but begging it won't make it drink.
(Faroese Proverb)
- Big rivers are made out of many small brooks.
(Faroese Proverb)
- It mars to tie the dog to the butter stamp.
(Faroese Proverb)
- Old ravens are not easy to fool.
(Faroese Proverb)
- There are misfortunes in almost every family.
(Faroese Proverb)
- You've made your bed, so you can lie in it.
(Faroese Proverb)
- Burnt child fears the fire.
(Faroese Proverb)
- It's a poor bird that fouls its own nest.
(Faroese Proverb)
- See the guest out if you want to see him again.
(Faroese Proverb)
- There is always something the matter with a bad child.
(Faroese Proverb)
- Done by oneself is well done.
(Faroese Proverb)
- It's bad to have to trust in others.
(Faroese Proverb)
- Small birds lay small eggs.
(Faroese Proverb)
- There lies often falsehood beneath a pretty skin.
(Faroese Proverb)
- Every day is not a baking-day.
(Faroese Proverb)
- It's better to be prepared than swift afterwards.
(Faroese Proverb)
- Small boats sail, as well as ships.
(Faroese Proverb)
- There should be good embers after a good fire.
(Faroese Proverb)
- Everything is better than owning nothing.
(Faroese Proverb)
- It's difficult to build a boat plank against the wave.
(Faroese Proverb)
- Small fish are better than empty dishes.
(Faroese Proverb)
- Things don't always go as planned.
(Faroese Proverb)
- Haste often causes nasty things.
(Faroese Proverb)
- It's the owner of the cow who walks close to her tail.
(Faroese Proverb)
- Swimming is easy if someone holds your head above water.
(Faroese Proverb)
- Time runs like the river current.
(Faroese Proverb)
- He that rows out often, gets fish at last.
(Faroese Proverb)
- Keeping silence won't get you to court.
(Faroese Proverb)
- The blind one asked the naked guy to lead him on.
(Faroese Proverb)
- We are born to be our own, and not fed to it.
(Faroese Proverb)
- A boatless man is tied up.
(Faroese Proverb)
- He who waits gets a tailwind, and he who rows, a harbour.
(Faroese Proverb)
- Loans are to come home laughingly.
(Faroese Proverb)
- The child does not cry as long as it has its way.
(Faroese Proverb)
- When ale goes in, the wit goes out.
(Faroese Proverb)
- A crow likes her own chick the best.
(Faroese Proverb)
- Hear about others, but make it cosy for yourselves.
(Faroese Proverb)
- Mad dogs get their skin torn.
(Faroese Proverb)
- The coward falls.
(Faroese Proverb)
- When the mouse is full, the flour tastes bitter.
(Faroese Proverb)
- A man without a knife, is a man without a life.
(Faroese Proverb)
- Heavy is an old man's fall.
(Faroese Proverb)
- Many can carry things on both shoulders.
(Faroese Proverb)
- The crow thinks best of her own chickens.
(Faroese Proverb)
- When the mouse is satisfied, the flour is bitter.
(Faroese Proverb)
- After a landslide one more can be expected.
(Faroese Proverb)
- High calling brings a high fall.
(Faroese Proverb)
- No one should forget old friends and old goats.
(Faroese Proverb)
- The dead man's heirs are many, but not his brothers.
(Faroese Proverb)
- Who does not eat till he is full, won't lick himself satisfied.
(Faroese Proverb)
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