At (age) twenty you’ll work, at thirty you’ll make, and at forty you’ll have. If you don’t work, you will not make, and you won’t have.
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Category Archives: Greek Proverbs
202 Greek Proverb
A thorn stings even if it’s small.
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The smallest problems can hurt you
114 Greek Proverb
The big fish eats the little one.
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People of wealth or high position always take advantage of the less fortunate or weak.
345 Greek Proverb
Human things are a wheel. (ancient Greek saying)
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259 Greek Proverb
A wheel it is and it turns around.
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The obvious.
560 Greek Proverb
Bean by bean, the sack gets full.
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On the merits of saving.
570 Greek Proverb
This one is in peasant Greek and it says: Now that I live , I want to see, to wish and own, and when I’m gone i want you to cry for me, but I won’t acknowledge it.
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236 Greek Proverb
A workshop should have a lame master.
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173 Greek Proverb
Many have loved treason, none the traitor.
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Many people want to do things, don’t have the guts, and the scorn someone who does
123 Greek Proverb
A house not seen by the sun is seen by the doctor.
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134 Greek Proverb
Many relatives, little by little (on each visit).
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Family.
125 Greek Proverb
The one hand washes the other, and both wash the face.
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Used when referring to cooperation and mutual dependency. Also possibly exchanging illicit favours.
156 Greek Proverb
Cheap meat is eaten by dogs.
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Cheap items are thrown away.
599 Greek Proverb
For the new house, the first year is your enemy’s, the second is your own, and the third your reason/logic’s.
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155 Greek Proverb
What doesn’t concern you, don’t ask about, and you’ll never have bad (things in your life).
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About curiosity.
162 Greek Proverb
Son of old age, won’t know his father. (Byzantine proverb)
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128 Greek Proverb
When poverty comes in through the door, love goes out through the window.
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Financial problems in a home affect loving relationships.
171 Greek Proverb
It’s better to lose an eye than to get a bad name.
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If one gets the reputation ~ name~ of being something, it is very hard to lose it.