832 Hungarian Proverbs / Page 25
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It is a splinter in the eye of somebody.482.
It is an egg of Columbus.483.
It is an ugly bird that defiles its own nest.484.
It is bad with the bad, but it is worse without the bad.485.
It is below the bottom of a frog.486.
It is better to ask twice than to err once.487.
It is better to fear, something than to get frightened.488.
It is better to get fillers often than forints seldom.489.
It is better to give than to receive.490.
It is difficult to swim against the stream.491.
It is easier to destroy than to build.492.
It is easy to collect ears of corn under, beside a stack.493.
It is easy to inflict a wound, but difficult to heal it.494.
It is easy to push a cart drawn by twelve oxen.495.
It is good everywhere, but it is the best at home.496.
It is good to have an old man at home.497.
It is like peas thrown against the wall.498.
It is like throwing bur on a gourd.499.
It is long as the songs of St. John's day.500.
It is made as the stool of St. Lucy's day.