188 Finnish Proverbs / Page 7
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Piss without farting, die without fucking.122.
Pissed off like a little squirrel with a frozen pine cone.123.
Poverty is no joy, although it sometimes makes you laugh.124.
Praise your horse tomorrow, your son when he has a beard, your daughter when she is married and yourself never.125.
Pride goes before the fall.126.
Rain does not stay in the sky.127.
Rather a man without a cow for the summer than without a wife for Christmas night.128.
Roll me, don't curse me, said the stone to the ploughman.129.
Send a child to do your errands, go do them yourself afterwards.130.
Siberia will teach.131.
Skill is not a heavy load to carry.132.
Sour said the fox about rowan berries.133.
Such things happen even to better folk.134.
Take a man by his word, take a bull by its horn.135.
That dog yelps, which stick hits.136.
The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.137.
The back has to pay for what the ears didn't hear.138.
The brave eat the soup, the timid die of hunger.139.
The cheese betrays the milk.140.
The child led by the hand never learns to walk.