105 Sayings of Lithuanian Origin

1. "The King searches for a crumb." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

2. "He is happy like one who got a steed for present." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

3. "Smoke in your own country is purer than fire in a foreign land." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

4. "If it weren't for sorrow and bad times, every day would be Christmas." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

5. "Dogs cannot make dreams come true, people must do that." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

6. "He lives like a Swede on his seas." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

7. "He is always hungry like a child of a cuckoo in another bird's nest." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

8. "Without gold even the daylight is dark." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

9. "Love without envy is like a meal without salt." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

10. "It's good when a dog is a friend, it's bad when a friend is a dog." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

11. "He eats like a beast, without having made the sign of the cross on his muzzle." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

12. "Do your best at everything you're doing." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

13. "He speaks like one who fell down from a tree." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

14. "For every head a hat." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

15. "As angry as a hoopoe-bird in a swamp." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

16. "Don't laugh when your neighbor's oven is on fire." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

17. "As drunk as a pig." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

18. "The happy do not count the hours." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

19. "Smoke spreads further than the fire." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

20. "As deceptive as an April morning." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

21. "Life without wife is like a kitchen garden without fence." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

22. "It is easier to give orders than to work." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

23. "God, take it in shirt and give me one in fur." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

24. "Good start is a half of work." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

25. "There is no worse devil than a farmer who wants to be a gentleman." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

26. "Beauty will not fill your belly." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

27. "Well begun is half done." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

28. "A slow sow digs out a deeper root." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

29. "Do what's necessary before doing anything you want." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

30. "A home so small it fits under a blade of grass, is still a home." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

31. "She dressed herself like an owl with the feathers of a peacock." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

32. "He hisses like a serpent without goat-milk." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

33. "Gold glitters even in the mud." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

34. "God gave gums, God will give granary." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

35. "As fast as nine winds." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

36. "Whatever may happen the Lithuanian will not perish." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

37. "Don't be too bold, or you will burn your eyes; but don't be too slow, or you will lose your share." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

38. "I can neither read, nor write, but they promise to make me a king." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

39. "To a starving man bread is sweeter than honey." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

40. "You must get your son, your wife and your bread from your native village." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

41. "A silent pig digs the deepest root." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

42. "It is difficult to teach a cow to climb a tree." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

43. "Thrift is mother of wisdom." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

44. "Even the smallest drop is appreciated by the drunkard." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

45. "He is as tenacious as a witch being drown." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

46. "Without pains no gains." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

47. "Not all that glitters is gold; not all that is sticky is tar." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

48. "Even the hardest of winters fears the spring." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

49. "He is as happy as a dove in the claws of a hawk." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

50. "Fear and love do not go together." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

51. "To whom it itches, scratches it." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

52. "If God closes the door, He opens the window somewhere else." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

53. "A man without a beard is like bread without a crust." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

54. "What kind of parents, such children." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

55. "If you run from a wolf, you may run into a bear." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

56. "He who does not want to work, that cannot eat either." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

57. "God gave teeth; He will give bread." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

58. "As beautiful as a fairy-child." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

59. "One day teaches the other." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

60. "He who drinks beer lives hundred years." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

61. "Words do not fill your purse." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

62. "Boasting pot is not greasy." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

63. "He is as sad as the one whose shot wounded a dove." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

64. "Live life without rushing; death won't be late." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

65. "I got drunk as a bee, my legs are like quills." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

66. "A shoe-maker walks barefooted." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

67. "He sleeps as though he were killed." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

68. "He is proud like a French dog." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

69. "Such father, such son." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

70. "The older the goat the tighter the rope." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

71. "The church is nearby, God is far away." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

72. "Teeth are like doves." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

73. "One main road is better than a hundred paths." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

74. "Sing to the one whose cart you are riding on." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

75. "As one devil goes out, another one comes in." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

76. "There is an herb for every kind of sickness but not for death." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

77. "He is as educated as a dog of a druggist." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

78. "Wherewith you coincide, such you yourself will become." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

79. "Don't get happy before work is completed." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

80. "The breath of others always stinks." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

81. "You are learning all your life and you die stupid." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

82. "Good eyes don't fear smoke." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

83. "He is standing like Philip in a field of hemp." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

84. "To be without learning, is to be without eyes." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

85. "If you go to bed hungry, you'll wake up without having slept." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

86. "The calf isn't even born yet and there he is sharpening his carving knife." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

87. "An old love does not rust." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

88. "From a big cloud comes little rain." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

89. "The calm water is deep." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

90. "You cannot jump higher than your navel." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

91. "With your head you cannot break a wall." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

92. "Sleep on a bed of silver and dream of gold." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

93. "When you are in the Devil's wheel, you must learn how to spin." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

94. "The shoemaker is always barefooted." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

95. "There is no need to whip docile horses." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

96. "It fits like a fifth foot to a dog." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

97. "Offer the lazy man an egg, and he'll want you to peel it for him." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

98. "Who gives, has." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

99. "You can't blow against the wind." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

100. "It is good fishing in streamy water." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

101. "He is as joyful as one whose path has been crossed by a flying dove." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

102. "He flings about like a fairy in a corn-kiln." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

103. "The beauty of a housewife will not put more fat into the soup." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

104. "With the intellect of another you won't get very far." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

105. "A widow is lying at my side like a block of ice." (Lithuanian Sayings) Click to tweet