222 Proverbs about Someone / Page 4
61. You don't give someone a goat for a gift and still hold on to the rope.
62. You can learn a lot about someone by observing him when he is hungry.
63. To love someone who does not love you, is like shaking a tree to make the dew drops fall.
64. Preventing someone from falling is better than helping him get up.
65. He who wrongs someone has to expect something in retaliation.
66. If someone betrays you once, it's his fault. If he betrays you twice, it's your fault.
67. If the hours are long enough and the pay is short enough, someone will say it's women's work.
68. If only I were a bird! Ah, but eating caterpillars? If someone betrays you once, it's his fault. If he betrays you twice, it's your fault.
69. It is a bad idea to take a thorn out of someone else's foot and put it into your own.
70. Things never go so well that someone should have no fear, nor so bad that someone should have no hope.
71. Don't talk about a rope in the house of someone whose father was hung.
72. On your own donkey it is quicker than on someone else's racehorse.
73. It is easy to catch a serpent with someone else's hand.
74. A fool is someone who trusts another fool.
75. To offer friendship to one who is looking for love, is like giving bread to someone dying of thirst.
76. What have you to hide from someone who shows you his arse?
77. Never advise someone to go to war or to get married.
78. If someone cannot even keep his own secrets, don't count on him to keep someone else's.
79. By continually scolding someone, they in time become accustomed to it and despise your reproof.
80. He who is waiting for someone else's bowl often dines late.
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