Search in folklore: wild

37 results

Only thin dogs become wild.

Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy

When you treat someone like a wild cat, he will steal your chickens.

Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy

The mule wasn't born wild, the stick made her that way.

Proverbs and old sayings Mexican

Wood in wildernesse, & strength in a fool.

Proverbs and old sayings

The wild pear has blossomed: the kid goat no longer suffers.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

Oregano and wild mint, if one does poorly, the other is worse.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

In the olive grove, a wise man at the feet and a wild man at the head.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about heads, man

He has drunk the juice of the flower of the wild aloe.

Proverbs and old sayings Zulu about garden

A wild dog is best eaten when clubbed to death.

Proverbs and old sayings about death

If you haven't any sheep you won't know that a fox is a wild animal.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about haven

A woman is like a bee treat her well and she will make honey, treat her badly and she will go wild.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about woman

The flowers in your garden don't smell as sweet as those in the wild, but they last much longer.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about flowers, garden

Not to know the good we have Till time has stolen the cherish'd gift away, Is cause of half the misery that we feel, And makes the world the wilderness it is.

Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian about gifts, world, time, good, good luck

The husbands belong to the wives and hookers are for the wild beast.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian