Abkhaz proverbs on faults and sins (Part 2)
· Is a bad reputation worse than a dishonourable deed? · A person with minor potential has major requirements. · He who thinks about bad things will come to a bad end.
· Coughs and bad habits cannot be hidden.
· A thief will always be a thief, no matter what he has stolen – a hen or an egg.
· If a cow butts, its horn will soon break off.
· Anyone who sells bad goods speaks sweetly.
· Prison knows the habits of the thief.
· Even clothes will not hide a bad woman.
· A bad cow has big horns.
· Your neighbour's hen lays eggs twice a day.
· A bad person brings a quarrel.
· From far away even mountains appear flawless.
· Not everything that blossoms smells good.
· The priest praised paradise, but did not hasten there himself.
· A tomb will correct a hunchback, and a stick will correct a rude person.
· The snake changes its skin, but not its heart.
· Evil comes to he who thinks evil.
· Envy is illness of the heart.
· As bright as day outside, as black as night inside.
· There is no village without its thief.
