Albanian Proverbs 1


Famous Albanian sayings and proverbs.

  1. “Youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret.”
  2. “You're not supposed to keep religion, it's supposed to keep you.”
  3. “Your whole destiny is involved in the attitude you take toward your sin.”
  4. “Your thoughts go no farther than your vocabulary.”
  5. “Your sins will find you out.”
  6. “Your own faults look as big to the other fellow as his do to you.”
  7. “Your ignorance is your worst enemy.”
  8. “Your first accident may be your last.”
  9. “Your failures could be stepping-stones to success.
  10. “Your eye is the only way you can judge things.”
  11. “Your best friend is yourself.
  12. “Young courage and old caution are a strong pair.
  13. “You'll hear a lot of things before your ears drop off.”
  14. “You will never find a cat on a cold hearth.”
  15. “You need not grease a fat sow.”
  16. “You need more than dancing shoes to be a dancer.”
  17. “You must pay the fiddler if you want to dance.”
  18. “You might as well die with the chills as with the fever.”
  19. “You may choose your friends; your family is thrust upon you.”
  20. “You know who your friend and your enemy are during difficult moments”
  21. “You have to crawl before you can walk.”
  22. “You have to be smarter than the dog to teach him tricks.”
  23. “You can't trust your best friend.”
  24. “You can't tell the depth of the well by the length of the handle on the pump.”
  25. “You can't take a second drink unless you have taken a first.”
  26. “You can't see the sun when you're crying.”
  27. “You can't lose what you haven't got.”
  28. “You can't kid your conscience.”
  29. “You can't keep the birds from flying over your head, but you can keep them from building a nest in your hair.”
  30. “You can't jest an enemy into a friend, but you can jest a friend into an enemy.”
  31. “You can't hold another fellow down in the ditch unless you stay down there with him.”