List of Romanian Proverbs Sayings
Art has no enemy but ignorance.
Nature has given us two ears, two eyes and but one tongue; to the end we should hear and see more than we speak. |
Fools ask questions that wise men cannot answer. |
Like wood, like arrow. |
There is no accounting for tastes. |
I scratch where it itches not. |
It is the first step that is difficult. |
Best to bend while it is a twig. |
One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever. |
Slander leaves a score behind it. |
Dogs bark, but the caravan goes on. |
Laws go as kings like. |
Great boast and small roast makes unsavory mouths. |
Every man is a king in his own house. |
Tongue breaks bone and herself has none. |
Show me a liar, and I will show you a thief. |
Death makes equal the high and low. |
To promise and give nothing is comfort to a fool. |
Silence is often the best answer. |
There is a remedy for everything but death. |
First think, and then speak. |
Daughters and dead fish are no keeping wares. |
So many servants, so many enemies. |
Rich folk have many friends. |
Everything has an end. |
Man cannot live by bread alone. |
Spare the rod and spoil the child. |
When you are an anvil, hold you still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill. |
Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. |
If you wish to die young, make your physician your heir. |
Cast no dirt into the well that hath given you water. |
Kind words go a long way. |
Fortune is blind. |
Romanian Sayings in English |
A friend in need is a friend indeed. |
Love thy neighbour as thyself. |
Yesterday will not be called again. |
Poverty is not a shame; but the being ashamed of it is. |
Evil communications corrupt good manners. |
Talk of the devil, and he is bound to appear. |
A bean in liberty is better than a comfit in prison. |
Dry bread at home is better than roast meat abroad. |
Youth will have its course. |
Though a lie be well dressed, it is ever overcome. |
He that hurts another hurts himself. |
Friends may meet, but mountains never greet. |
Time shall teach thee all things. |
Wrong laws make short governance. |
Content is more than a kingdom. |
Do not put your spoon into the pot which does not boil for you. |
The wolf preys farthest from his home. |
It is only the dead who do not return. |
You must ask your neighbour if you shall live in peace. |
Give the piper a penny to play and two pence to leave off. |
Women are as changeable as the wind. |
Give a clown your finger, and he will take your hand. |
He that labors and thrives spins gold. |
To strain at a gnat and swallow a camel. |
Eat at pleasure, drink by measure. |
He that has a house of glass must not throw stones at another. |
My old mare would have a new crupper. |
You cannot see the wood for the trees. |
A bad beginning, a bad ending. |
Wine makes glad the heart of man. |
Our neighbour's cow yields more milk than our. |
He who excuses himself, accuses himself. |
A fool may give a wise man counsel. |
Under a ragged coat lies wisdom. |
The tailor that makes not a knot loses a stitch. |
God sends meat and the devil sends cooks. |
A covetous man serves his riches, not they him. |
Near is my doublet, but nearer is my smock. |
The peacock hath fair feathers, but foul feet. |
Hope deferred maketh the heart sick. |
Diamond cut diamond. |
Patience provoked turns to fury. |
Money makes the world go round. |
Tread on a worm and it will turn. |
I cannot be your friend and your flatterer too. |
Old age is sickness of itself. |
Even a worm will turn. |
Three women and a goose make a market. |
A man is known by the company he keeps. |
Good broth may be made in an old pot. |
They shall beat their swords into ploughshares. |
Never choose your women or your linen by candlelight. |
Good words cool more than cold water. |
Mind other men, but most yourself. |
A blind man may sometimes hit the mark. |
No one but the wearer knows where the shoe pinches. |
Stolen pleasures are sweet. |
He that cannot abide a bad market deserves not a good one. |
One beats the bush and another catches the birds. |
No fine cloth can hide the clown. |
After pleasure comes pain. |
Every land has its own law. |
Money is round, and rolls away. |
Who remove stones bruise their fingers. |
Hasty climbers have sudden falls. |
Virtue is a jewel of great price. |
A creaking door hangs long on its hinges. |
Silence is golden. |
Where the hedge is lowest, men may soonest over. |
Men leap over where the hedge is lowest. |
He gives twice who gives quickly. |
If you are travelling in the blind man's country close one eye. |
The horse that draws most is most whipped. |
What's yours is mine, and what's mine is my own. |
Art has no enemy but ignorance. * |
Look to thyself when thy neighbour's house is on fire. |
He that asks faintly begs a denial. |
Ill luck is good for something. |
Water flows, rocks remain. |
Custom is a second nature. |
Great promises and small performances. |
Measure thrice what thou buyest; and cut it but once. |
Self-praise is no recommendation. |
Everyone knows best where his own shoe pinches. |
He that fears leaves, let him not go into the wood. |
Silence gives consent. |
Bees that have honey in their mouths have stings in their tails. |
A forgetful head makes a weary pair of heels. |
Many men have many minds. |
one may become the devil's brother in order to cross the bridge. |
Hope often deludes the foolish man. |
Experience is the mother of knowledge. |
Sadness and gladness succeed each other. |
In many words the truth goes by. |
Some people may have reasons unknown to you for doing certain things. |
Children and fools tell the truth. |
Hunger makes hard beans sweet. |
Many a one for land takes a fool by the hand. |
Better be the head of a pike than the tail of a sturgeon. |
Little cares speak, great ones are dumb. |
Quietness is a great treasure. |
Good things come to some when they are asleep. |
Make your enemy your friend. |
Never buy a pig in a poke. |
Put not your trust in princes. |
Fire is the test of gold. |
Never let the sun go down on your anger. |
Romanian Proverbs About Love |
Love is blind, but marriage finds a cure. |
Love is a sweet torment. |
Love is full of trouble. |
Love is the fruit of idleness. |
Love is strong as death. |
Love will find a way. |
Love cannot be compelled. |
Love is without reason. |
Love will go through stone walls. |
Love does much, money does everything. |
Love is not found in the market. |
Love understands all languages. |
Love lasts as long as money endures. |
Love covers many faults. |
Love and a cough cannot be hid. |
Love is sweet in the beginning but sour in the ending. |
Love your friend with his fault. |
Love makes all hearts gentle. |
Love is never without jealousy. |
Love me, love my dog. |
Love covers many infirmities. |
No herb will cure love. |
No folly like being in love. |
There is nothing worse than an old lover. |
Perfect love casteth out fear. |
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it. |
Old love will not be forgotten. |
No love like the first love. |
Of soup and love, the first is the best. |
The course of true love never did run smooth. |
Dry bread is better with love than a fat capon with fear. |
There is a time to love, and a time to hate. |
Each bird loves to hear himself sing. |
The bird loves her nest. |
Fanned fires and forced love never did well yet. |
The eye lets in love. |
Faults are thick where love is thin. |
The love of money is the root of all evil. |
Fear is stronger than love. |
Whom god loves, his bitch brings forth pigs. |
Follow love and it will flee thee; flee love and it will follow thee. |
Salt water and absence wash away love. |
Short love, long sighs. |
If you love the boll, you cannot hate branches. Romanian Proverbs |
The Muses love the morning. |
Jove laughs at lovers' perjuries. |
The devil loves no holy water. |
The greatest hate springs from the greatest love. |
When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out of the window. |
If the adder could hear, and the blindworm could see, neither man nor beast would ever go free. |
Penny wise and pound foolish. |
In wine there is truth. |
Long ways, long lies. |
Better the foot slip than the tongue. |
If the beard were all, the goat might preach. |
Rain before seven; fine before eleven. |
As the work, so the pay. |
Hell is paved with good intentions. |
You look for the horse you ride on. |
Standing pools gather filth. |
Birds of a feather flock together. |
Honour is the reward of virtue. |
Folly and learning often dwell together. |
Give a man luck and cast him into the sea. |
Strike while the iron is hot. |
Praise a fair day at night. |
Blood is thicker than water. |
Leave a jest when it pleases lest it turn to earnest. |
It is good to strike the serpent's head with your enemy's hand. |
Like master, like man. |
Do unto others as you would they should do unto you. |
Beware of him whom god hath marked. |
Like father, like son. |
A creaking cart goes long on the wheels. Romanian Sayings |
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