Romanian proverbs

When you are an anvil, hold you still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill.

Better an ugly duckling from your own village than a beauty from foreign parts.

If you lie upon roses when you're young, you'll lie upon thorns when you're old.

Without other people's companionship, even paradise would be an unlikable place.

He that deceives me once, shame fall him; if he deceives me twice, shame fall me.

You will catch more flies with a spoonful of honey than with a gallon of vinegar.

Always taking Out of the meal-tub, and never putting in, soon comes to the bottom.

A spaniel, a woman, and a walnut-tree, the more they're beaten the better they be.

Like the gardener's dog, that neither eats cabbages himself, nor lets anybody else.

One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.

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