Finnish Proverbs (186 Proverbs)
- A cat lives on praise, a dog by pats on the head.
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- Age does not give sense it only makes one go slowly.
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- Eat, and small ills disappear.
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- Happens in better families too.
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- If you reach for something that is far too good for you, it is not going to end well.
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- Never leave a mate behind.
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- Rather a man without a cow for the summer than without a wife for Christmas night.
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- The poor can't afford to buy cheap.
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- Who reaches for the spruce, falls down onto the juniper.
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- A child is like an axe; even if it hurts, you stil carry them on your shoulders.
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- Always exist branch grabbers, when exist fir-tree haulers.
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- End well, all well.
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- Happiness is a place between too little and too much.
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- If you're short of trouble take a goat.
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- No matter how misbehaved a child, the parents will accept.
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- Roll me, don't curse me, said the stone to the ploughman.
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- The pot reproaching the kettle.
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- Whose bread you eat, his songs you'll sing.
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- A Finn doesn?t believe before he has seen.
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- An empty barn needs no roof.
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- Even a pigeon has a pussy
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- Harmony creates accommodation.
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- In a trade someone always loses.
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- No need to plough and sow madmen, they grow by themselves.
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- Send a child to do your errands, go do them yourself afterwards.
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- The winter does not go without looking backward.
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- Wise in the morning is wiser in the evening.
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- A good deal for two, is a clip on the ears of a third.
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- An honest man would rather sell his land than tell a lie.
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- Even a poor man owns the sun and the stars.
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- He who asks won't lose his way.
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- In sunshine the dust is seen.
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- No one can be an expected to be an expert at something before they have got the chance to practice it.
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- Siberia will teach.
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- The wise person is only cheated once.
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- Work doesn't scare him, but he could lay down near it and sleep.
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- A little bit of experience is better than a barrel full of knowledge.
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- Be always a little afraid so that you never have need of being much afraid.
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- Even a stupid one seems wise if he keeps his mouth shut.
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- He who lies thrice believes he's told the truth.
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- It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
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- No one is a blacksmith when they are born.
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- Skill is not a heavy load to carry.
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- There's a man who looks like a partridge with legs like a mosquito.
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- Work earns a living but trade makes you rich.
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- A man is valued by his work, not his words.
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- Being in love is like feeling the sun from both sides.
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- Even the clock shows the time without knowing anything.
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- He who praises the past blames the present.
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- It is the dog which is hit by the tossed stick, which yelps.
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- No use crying at the market, sell your fur coat and drink the money.
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- Sour said the fox about rowan berries.
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- Time goes on while life runs out.
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- Works like the train toilet.
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- A man without a wife is like a field without a fence.
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- Better one hazel grouse in the bag, than ten on the branch.
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- Even the crow sings with its own voice.
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- Help the man climbing a hill, not the one standing below it.
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- Judge not the dog by its hair.
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- On the gallows, the first night is the worst.
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- Such things happen even to better folk.
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- To be in love is to feel the sun from both sides.
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- You always lose.
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- A month from a skylark, a half from a finch, a little from a wagtail and not a day from a swallow.
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- Big words won't split ones mouth.
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- Everything is beautiful once the eye likes the view.
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- Hope for miracles, but don't rely on one happening.
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- Keeping yourself and your food clean, you'll get more from it.
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- One sleeps like one makes his bed.
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- Take a man by his word, take a bull by its horn.
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- Two are holy: a church and a sauna.
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- You can disguise wealth but you can't hide poverty.
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- A new day shows a new way.
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- Buy, buy, the children will pay the debts.
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- Express yourself earnestly, and you have no reason for shame even if you lack talent.
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- Hurry, and you'll get only shithead kids.
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- Let's be quiet, we'll get some fish.
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- One stupid person asks more than ten wise ones can spare time answering.
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- That dog yelps, which stick hits.
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- Two do not think the same thoughts together.
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