Wednesday, January 26, 2022
Finnish Proverbs (186 Proverbs)
- A willing helper comes without asking.
(Finnish Proverb)
- Don't paint the devil on the wall.
(Finnish Proverb)
- God never says no to grand thoughts.
(Finnish Proverb)
- If you can not find peace within yourself, it is useless to look elsewhere.
(Finnish Proverb)
- Money talks all the way to heaven's door.
(Finnish Proverb)
- Pissed off like a little squirrel with a frozen pine cone.
(Finnish Proverb)
- The frost drives the pig home.
(Finnish Proverb)
- When a man remembers the land, the land remembers him.
(Finnish Proverb)
- A bird in the hand is worth ten in the bush.
(Finnish Proverb)
- Actions have consequences.
(Finnish Proverb)
- Don't paint the image of a demon on a wall.
(Finnish Proverb)
- Great things often come from small beginnings.
(Finnish Proverb)
- If you have ploughed with oxen, married a widow and never said a bad word - surely you go to heaven.
(Finnish Proverb)
- Money's for buying and a horse is for riding.
(Finnish Proverb)
- Poverty is no joy, although it sometimes makes you laugh.
(Finnish Proverb)
- The mocked may grow up to dignity, but the mocker will never outgrow his juvenile behaviour.
(Finnish Proverb)
- When something has been denied of you, you can still do it once.
(Finnish Proverb)
- A cat lives on praise, a dog by pats on the head.
(Finnish Proverb)
- Age does not give sense it only makes one go slowly.
(Finnish Proverb)
- Eat, and small ills disappear.
(Finnish Proverb)
- Happens in better families too.
(Finnish Proverb)
- If you reach for something that is far too good for you, it is not going to end well.
(Finnish Proverb)
- Never leave a mate behind.
(Finnish Proverb)
- Rather a man without a cow for the summer than without a wife for Christmas night.
(Finnish Proverb)
- The poor can't afford to buy cheap.
(Finnish Proverb)
- Who reaches for the spruce, falls down onto the juniper.
(Finnish Proverb)
- A child is like an axe; even if it hurts, you stil carry them on your shoulders.
(Finnish Proverb)
- Always exist branch grabbers, when exist fir-tree haulers.
(Finnish Proverb)
- End well, all well.
(Finnish Proverb)
- Happiness is a place between too little and too much.
(Finnish Proverb)
- If you're short of trouble take a goat.
(Finnish Proverb)
- No matter how misbehaved a child, the parents will accept.
(Finnish Proverb)
- Roll me, don't curse me, said the stone to the ploughman.
(Finnish Proverb)
- The pot reproaching the kettle.
(Finnish Proverb)
- Whose bread you eat, his songs you'll sing.
(Finnish Proverb)
- A Finn doesn?t believe before he has seen.
(Finnish Proverb)
- An empty barn needs no roof.
(Finnish Proverb)
- Even a pigeon has a pussy
(Finnish Proverb)
- Harmony creates accommodation.
(Finnish Proverb)
- In a trade someone always loses.
(Finnish Proverb)
- No need to plough and sow madmen, they grow by themselves.
(Finnish Proverb)
- Send a child to do your errands, go do them yourself afterwards.
(Finnish Proverb)
- The winter does not go without looking backward.
(Finnish Proverb)
- Wise in the morning is wiser in the evening.
(Finnish Proverb)
- A good deal for two, is a clip on the ears of a third.
(Finnish Proverb)
- An honest man would rather sell his land than tell a lie.
(Finnish Proverb)
- Even a poor man owns the sun and the stars.
(Finnish Proverb)
- He who asks won't lose his way.
(Finnish Proverb)
- In sunshine the dust is seen.
(Finnish Proverb)
- No one can be an expected to be an expert at something before they have got the chance to practice it.
(Finnish Proverb)
- Siberia will teach.
(Finnish Proverb)
- The wise person is only cheated once.
(Finnish Proverb)
- Work doesn't scare him, but he could lay down near it and sleep.
(Finnish Proverb)
- A little bit of experience is better than a barrel full of knowledge.
(Finnish Proverb)
- Be always a little afraid so that you never have need of being much afraid.
(Finnish Proverb)
- Even a stupid one seems wise if he keeps his mouth shut.
(Finnish Proverb)
- He who lies thrice believes he's told the truth.
(Finnish Proverb)
- It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
(Finnish Proverb)
- No one is a blacksmith when they are born.
(Finnish Proverb)
- Skill is not a heavy load to carry.
(Finnish Proverb)
- There's a man who looks like a partridge with legs like a mosquito.
(Finnish Proverb)
- Work earns a living but trade makes you rich.
(Finnish Proverb)
- A man is valued by his work, not his words.
(Finnish Proverb)
- Being in love is like feeling the sun from both sides.
(Finnish Proverb)
- Even the clock shows the time without knowing anything.
(Finnish Proverb)
- He who praises the past blames the present.
(Finnish Proverb)
- It is the dog which is hit by the tossed stick, which yelps.
(Finnish Proverb)
- No use crying at the market, sell your fur coat and drink the money.
(Finnish Proverb)
- Sour said the fox about rowan berries.
(Finnish Proverb)
- Time goes on while life runs out.
(Finnish Proverb)
- Works like the train toilet.
(Finnish Proverb)
- A man without a wife is like a field without a fence.
(Finnish Proverb)
- Better one hazel grouse in the bag, than ten on the branch.
(Finnish Proverb)
- Even the crow sings with its own voice.
(Finnish Proverb)
- Help the man climbing a hill, not the one standing below it.
(Finnish Proverb)
- Judge not the dog by its hair.
(Finnish Proverb)
- On the gallows, the first night is the worst.
(Finnish Proverb)
- Such things happen even to better folk.
(Finnish Proverb)
- To be in love is to feel the sun from both sides.
(Finnish Proverb)
- You always lose.
(Finnish Proverb)
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