Albanian Proverbs 3


Famous Albanian sayings and proverbs.


  1. "You are judged not by what you have but by what you do with what you have."
  2. "Wrinkled purses make wrinkled faces."
  3. "Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason."
  4. "Work well done makes pleasure more fun."
  5. "Words and deeds are not weighed in the same balance."
  6. "Women are like books: too much gilding makes men suspicious that the binding is the most important part."
  7. "Without justice, courage is weak."
  8. "With the old year leave your faults, however dear."
  9. "With age comes wisdom."
  10. "Wise men learn from other men's mistakes; fools insist on learning from their own."
  11. "Wisdom doesn't always speak in Greek and Latin."
  12. "Wide experience makes for deep tolerance."
  13. "Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?"
  14. "Whom chance often passes by, it finds at last."
  15. "Whoever gossips to you will gossip of you."
  16. "Who rewards evil for good, evil shall not depart his house."
  17. "Who pleasures gives shall joy receive."
  18. "Who never doubted never half believed."
  19. "Who is great in faith won't be small in failure."