Walloon Proverbs
Sayings of Walloon origin Three hairs are quickly combed. The best ointment comes in small boxes. Do what you want, but make sure you are first. Fat geese don't fly far. You only know saints by their miracles. The chemist doesn't smell his own medicine. When two poor men help each other, God laughs. The tail is always the most difficult part to skin. Better warn than be warned. The more the billy goat stinks, the more the nanny goat loves him. A tree falls the way it leans. Beauty is not so much what you see as what you dream. In dark weather the devil is in the air. He who keeps his mouth shut, dies without confession. Don't make use of another's mouth unless it has been leant to you. White flowers are not to be found in a coal sack. He started with nothing and still he has just his begging bag. As one nail drives out another. It is better to be alone than to be in bad company. Wallonia is the predominantly French-speaking south...