40 Sayings of Belgian Origin

1. "The beggar may sing before the thief." (Belgian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

2. "Experience keeps a dear school." (Belgian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

3. "Experience is the father of wisdom." (Belgian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

4. "While the sheep bleats it loses its mouthful." (Belgian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

5. "The money lender is brother to the tax collector." (Belgian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

6. "Who being respected, is destitute." (Belgian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

7. "God heals, but the doctor gets paid." (Belgian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

8. "A philosopher enlightens the pathway." (Belgian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

9. "Experience is the comb that nature gives us when we are bald." (Belgian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

10. "Love is born of faith, lives on hope and dies of charity." (Belgian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

11. "Life is a muddle, friendship is what sorts it out." (Belgian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

12. "Where there is accidental death, there is the devil's own henchman at work." (Belgian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

13. "Even the Priest was a thief when gold was left out." (Belgian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

14. "The horse must graze where it is tethered." (Belgian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

15. "Tolerance when mocked is often transformed into anger." (Belgian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

16. "It's no use waiting for your ship to come in, unless you've sent one out." (Belgian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

17. "What you say when you're drunk should have been thought about beforehand." (Belgian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

18. "Money buys cherries." (Belgian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

19. "One spot stains the whole dress." (Belgian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

20. "He who does not wish for little things does not deserve big things." (Belgian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

21. "A tax collector is best hung on Sunday." (Belgian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

22. "Don't use another person's mouth unless it has been lent to you." (Belgian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

23. "The bee, from her industry in the summer, eats honey all the winter." (Belgian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

24. "Proverbs are the library of history." (Belgian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

25. "The beautiful is less what one sees than what one dreams." (Belgian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

26. "Who sieves too much keeps the rubbish." (Belgian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

27. "Truth seldom finds a home." (Belgian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

28. "Only the undertaker chortles in the time of plague." (Belgian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

29. "If you don't use your head, you'll use your pocketbook." (Belgian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

30. "The word that is heard perishes, but the letter that is written remains." (Belgian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

31. "In the end a needle weighs heavy." (Belgian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

32. "Don't make waves." (Belgian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

33. "Honor is better than honors." (Belgian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

34. "Children have a hair of their father." (Belgian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

35. "We have quite enough to do weeding our own garden." (Belgian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

36. "Happy nations have no history." (Belgian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

37. "He who arrives too late finds the plate turned over." (Belgian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

38. "Those who counsel do not pay." (Belgian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

39. "Weeds never perish." (Belgian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

40. "To die in the season of plague brings no honor." (Belgian Sayings) Click to tweet