Defend me from chickens, for dogs I'm not afraid of!

*note*..some funny romanian proverbs.
-added by Danny-
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• Apa trece, pietrele rămân.
  • Translation: "Water flows, but rocks remain."

• Apără-mă de găini, că de câini nu mă tem.
  • Translation: "Defend me from chickens, for dogs I'm not afraid of."
  • Note: it refers to people: the chicken are the mean people, the treacherous friends, the dogs are the known enemies

• Aruncă binele în stânga şi în dreapta, şi la nevoie o să-l găseşti.
  • Translation: "Throw the good to your left and right, and you'll find it when you'll need it."

• Ascultă cu urechile, vezi cu ochii, dar taci cu gura.
  • Translation: "Use your ears to listen, use your eyes to see, but use your mouth to shut up."

• Dacă tăceai filosof rămâneai.
  • Translation: "Had he kept silent he would have passed for a wise man."

• Banu-i ochiu' dracului
  • Translation: "Money is the devil's eye."

• Treaba lăsată de azi pe mâine, baltă rămâne.
  • Translation: "Don't leave for tomorrow what you can do today."

• Cine are carte, are parte!
  • Translation: "Knowledge is power."

• Cine ştie carte, are patru ochi
  • Translation: "The one who has knowledge, has four eyes."

• Azi fură un ou, mâine un bou!
  • Translation: "He who steals an egg today, will steal an ox tomorrow!"

• Cine-i harnic şi munceşte are tot ce îşi doreşte. Cine fură şi nu-l prinde, are tot aşa!
  • Translation: "The one who works hard has everything he wants. The one who steals and is not caught, has the same."
  • Meaning: Life is not fair.

• La anul când o făta cârlanul! - sau - Când o fi bunica fată mare!
  • Translation: "Next year when the lamb delivers - and - When my grandma will be a virgin again!"
  • Meaning: Used to suggest something that will never happen.

• Câinele bătrân nu latră degeaba.
  • Translation: "The old dog doesn't bark without reason."

• Câinele moare de drum lung şi prostul de grija altuia.
  • Translation: "A dog dies from too much walking, a fool from worrying about other's business."

• Câinii latră, ursu' trece...
  • Translation: "The dogs bark, the bear passes by..." (undisturbed)

• Până ce căţeaua nu ridică coada, câinele nu o miroase
  • Translation: "Until the bitch raises her tail, the dogs don't smell her"

• Cine se scoală de dimineaţă, departe ajunge.
  • Translation: "Early risers travel far away."

• Copii cuminţi şi babă frumoasă, cine-a mai vǎzut?!...
  • Translation: "Quiet/obedient children and beautiful old woman, who did ever saw?!"

• Cu gându' la Maica Domnului şi cu mâna în straiţa omului...
  • Translation: "With the thought at the Holy Virgin, with the hand in someone's pocket..."
  • Meaning: Thinking holy things while doing sinful deeds.

• Dacă doi spun că eşti beat, du-te şi te culcă.
  • Translation: "If two people say you're drunk, go to bed."

• Dai un ban dar stai în faţă!
  • Translation: "You pay top dollar, but you get a front seat!"

• Dragostea e oarbă, dar căsătoria îi găseşte leacul.
  • Translation: "Love is blind, but marriage finds its cure."

• Drumul spre iad e pavat cu intenţii bune.
  • Translation: "The road to Hell is paved with good intentions."

• Fereşte-mǎ, Doamne, de prieteni, cǎ de duşmani mǎ apǎr singur.
  • Translation: "Defend me, Lord, from my friends, because from enemies I can defend myself."

• Fiecare pasăre, pe limba ei piere.
  • Translation: "Every bird dies by its own tongue."

• Leneşu' mai mult aleargă -- Scumpu' mai mult păgubeşte
  • Translation: "The lazy one runs more -- the stingy one loses more."

• Mâţa blândă zgârie rău.
  • Translation: "The gentle cat scratches the worst."

• Nu da vrabia din mână pe cioara de pe gard.
  • Translation: "Don't give the sparrow in the hand for the crow on the fence."

• Nu iese fum fără foc.
  • Translation: "There's no smoke without fire."

• Nu măsura pe alţii cu palma ta.
  • Translation: "Don't measure others with your own hand."
  • Meaning: Some people may have reasons unknown to you for doing certain things.

• Nu poţi îndrepta lumea cu umărul.
  • Translation: "You can't straighten the world with your shoulder."

• Nu te pune cu prostul că are mintea odihnită.
  • Translation: "Don't argue with a fool, he has a rested mind."

• Nu vinde pielea ursului din pădure.
  • Translation: "Don't sell the skin of the bear from the forest."

• Obişnuinţa... a doua natură !
  • Translation: "The habit... the second nature."

• Ochii care nu se văd se uită...
  • Translation: "The eyes which don't see each other, forget each other."
  • Translation: "Out of sight, out of mind."

• Omul sfinţeşte locul.
  • Translation: "The man blesses the place."

• Ori te poartă cum ţi-e vorba, ori vorbeşte cum ţi-e portul.
  • Translation: "Either act as you speak, or speak as you act."

• Prietenul, la nevoie se cunoaşte!
  • Translation: "A friend in need is a friend indeed."

• Prostul care nu-i fudul, parcă n-ar fi prost destul!
  • Translation: "The fool who's not conceited, is not fool enough!"

• Râde ciob de oală spartă.
  • Translation: "The splinter laughs at the broken pot."

• S-a dus baba cu colacii!
  • Translation: The granny handing pretzels, is gone.
  • Meaning: "There goes your chance!"
  • Origin: It's a refrence to a traditional holiday similar to Halloween. Children gather outside in the night and they go around from house to house asking for "colaci"(a romanian form of pretzel)

• "S-a dus bou... şi s-a-ntors vacă !" (tatǎl lui Nică, în Ion Creangă-Amintiri din copilărie)
  • Translation: "He went as an ox and came back as a cow."
  • Meaning: Used for a person that spends a lot of time and money to study and gains nothing. (in Romanian, ox/cow is used for a person who lacks judgement, a fool)
  • Origin: Wealthy romanians used to send their spoiled kids to Paris to study, but most of them came back unchanged or worse.

• Sângele, apă nu se face.
  • Translation: "Blood doesn't turn into water."
  • Meaning: Someone may have an advantage because of being someone else's relative.

• Stăpânul învaţă sluga hoţ.
  • Translation: "The master turns the servant into a thief."

• Te îneci ca ţiganu' la mal.
  • Translation: "You drown at the shore like the gypsy."
  • Meaning: (referring to an assignment) you pass the most tasks, but you get stuck on an easy one near the end.

• Totu-i bine cand se termină cu bine.
  • Translation: "All is well that ends well."

• Satu' arde şi baba se piaptănă.
  • Translation: "The village is burning and the granny is combing her hair."

• Un prost încurcă, şi zece înţelepţi nu pot descurca"
  • Translation: "One fool tangles and ten wise men cannot untangle."

• Necazul nu vine singur niciodată!.
  • Translation: "The trouble never comes alone."

• Unde nu intră soarele pe geam, intră doctorul pe uşă.
  • Translation: "If the sun doesn't come through the window, the doctor will come through the door."

• Viaţa asta-i bun pierdut, de n-o trăieşti cum ai fi vrut!" (G.Cosbuc-Poezii, Decebal către popor)
  • Translation: "Life is a waste if you didn't live as you would have wanted to!"

• Vino necazule, dar vino singur!
  • Translation: "Come trouble, but come alone (trouble never comes alone)!"

• Din coada de caine sata de matasa nu faci!
  • Translation: "Can't turn dogs tail into a silk scarf!"

• Vorba multă, sărăcia omului
  • Translation: "Too many words are the poverty of mankind"

• Nu lăsa pe mâine ce poţi face azi.
  • Translation: "Don't leave for tomorrow, what you can do today."