59 Sayings of Maltese Origin

1. "Only fools and horses work." (Maltese Sayings) Click to tweet

 

2. "Mountain does not meet mountain, but a face meets another face." (Maltese Sayings) Click to tweet

 

3. "You cannot serve God and the devil." (Maltese Sayings) Click to tweet

 

4. "No one takes away anything with him." (Maltese Sayings) Click to tweet

 

5. "Only death is certain." (Maltese Sayings) Click to tweet

 

6. "He who does not fart lets out silent ones." (Maltese Sayings) Click to tweet

 

7. "Money begets money, and fleas beget fleas." (Maltese Sayings) Click to tweet

 

8. "I am dead. It is as if everybody were dead. Let the man left behind shut the door if he wants to." (Maltese Sayings) Click to tweet

 

9. "Charm is stronger than beauty." (Maltese Sayings) Click to tweet

 

10. "Enjoy yourself; for there is nothing in the world we can call our own." (Maltese Sayings) Click to tweet

 

11. "A kiss without a hug is like a flower without the fragrance." (Maltese Sayings) Click to tweet

 

12. "He is a fool who does not consider his own interests." (Maltese Sayings) Click to tweet

 

13. "A cup must be bitter that a smile will not sweeten." (Maltese Sayings) Click to tweet

 

14. "Malta would be a nice place, if every knight were a tree." (Maltese Sayings) Click to tweet

 

15. "The world teaches you more than your taskmaster." (Maltese Sayings) Click to tweet

 

16. "A good cow gets sold in its own country." (Maltese Sayings) Click to tweet

 

17. "Long skirts carry dust, but short skirts carry away souls." (Maltese Sayings) Click to tweet

 

18. "The world is a wheel and men are the felloes, and the devil prowling around spins." (Maltese Sayings) Click to tweet

 

19. "When the husband is a hen and the wife is a cock, the house is topsy-turvy." (Maltese Sayings) Click to tweet

 

20. "Marriage without lovemaking means sad consequences and sorrow." (Maltese Sayings) Click to tweet

 

21. "We are all equal before death." (Maltese Sayings) Click to tweet

 

22. "Asking is the sister of knowing." (Maltese Sayings) Click to tweet

 

23. "The world is nonsense, what looks beautiful in the morning looks ugly in the evening." (Maltese Sayings) Click to tweet

 

24. "Far from the eye, far from the heart." (Maltese Sayings) Click to tweet

 

25. "You can't buy heaven with money." (Maltese Sayings) Click to tweet

 

26. "An oven whose door does not shut does not bake its loaves." (Maltese Sayings) Click to tweet

 

27. "The good die young." (Maltese Sayings) Click to tweet

 

28. "Time gives good advice." (Maltese Sayings) Click to tweet

 

29. "Death said to the man with his throat cut, “How ugly you look”." (Maltese Sayings) Click to tweet

 

30. "When a miser dies, the heirs feel as happy as when they kill a pig." (Maltese Sayings) Click to tweet

 

31. "One man's fault is another man's lesson." (Maltese Sayings) Click to tweet

 

32. "Where the heart loves, there the legs walk." (Maltese Sayings) Click to tweet

 

33. "A good mule can be sold in his own territory." (Maltese Sayings) Click to tweet

 

34. "You must kill the spider to get rid of the cobweb." (Maltese Sayings) Click to tweet

 

35. "The good die first, And those, whose hearts are dry as summer dust, Burn to the socket." (Maltese Sayings) Click to tweet

 

36. "If you don't eat you will die; overeating will shorten your life." (Maltese Sayings) Click to tweet

 

37. "A woman has even cheated the devil." (Maltese Sayings) Click to tweet

 

38. "The law is not made for the rich." (Maltese Sayings) Click to tweet

 

39. "Today me, tomorrow you." (Maltese Sayings) Click to tweet

 

40. "Do well and forget it; do ill and remember it." (Maltese Sayings) Click to tweet

 

41. "Your soul to God, your body to dust, your property to your relatives, because thus it has been found written." (Maltese Sayings) Click to tweet

 

42. "What was is no more, what if is just if." (Maltese Sayings) Click to tweet

 

43. "With money you can build a road in the sea." (Maltese Sayings) Click to tweet

 

44. "A lovely girl attracts attention by her good looks, an ugly girl by the help of a mirror." (Maltese Sayings) Click to tweet

 

45. "Death rights everything." (Maltese Sayings) Click to tweet

 

46. "The good cow gets sold in its own country." (Maltese Sayings) Click to tweet

 

47. "The evil weed produces the largest number of weeds." (Maltese Sayings) Click to tweet

 

48. "Good health is the sister of beauty." (Maltese Sayings) Click to tweet

 

49. "He who goes to bed hungry dreams of pancakes." (Maltese Sayings) Click to tweet

 

50. "The weather vane will not work without wind." (Maltese Sayings) Click to tweet

 

51. "Chasten thy son while there is hope." (Maltese Sayings) Click to tweet

 

52. "One man's death is another man's life." (Maltese Sayings) Click to tweet

 

53. "After taking ninety-nine years to climb a stairway, the tortoise falls and says there is a curse on haste." (Maltese Sayings) Click to tweet

 

54. "The one who has had no experience of evil cannot know the worth of what is good." (Maltese Sayings) Click to tweet

 

55. "A man and a sheaf of straw make two." (Maltese Sayings) Click to tweet

 

56. "The wallet of the timid man neither increases nor decreases." (Maltese Sayings) Click to tweet

 

57. "The person who thinks about his own grief forgets about the grief of others." (Maltese Sayings) Click to tweet

 

58. "A cry, a sniff, and all comes to naught." (Maltese Sayings) Click to tweet

 

59. "When it's raining and the sun shines, then a Turk is born." (Maltese Sayings) Click to tweet