Death and Ageing Proverbs

·        You cannot teach an old dog new tricks.

·        There is no fool like an old fool.

·        An old man who takes a young wife invites Death to the wedding.

·        Nothing good will come from an old man who still wants to dance.

·        For an old man to marry is like wanting to harvest in the wintertime.

·        Old people can dye their hair, but they can't change their backs.

·        Age is poverty.

·        Age is a troublesome guest.

·        Age is a sickness from which everyone must die.

·        Youth rises, age falls.

·        A young wife is an old man's dispatch horse to the grave.

·        A young woman with an old husband is a wife by day and a widow by night.

·        A woman's beauty, an echo in the forest, and a rainbow all quickly disappear.

·        When the old cow dances, her claws rattle.

·        When the wolf grows old, the crows ride him

·        If the devil can't come himself, he sends an old woman.

·        It is not good if one goes out in the morning and encounters an old woman.

·        He who walks between two old women early in the morning shall have only bad luck the rest of the day.

·        To meet old women first thing in the morning means bad luck; young people, good luck.

·        Many men would rather let themselves be beaten to death, than to pass between two old women.

·        A person on his way to an important undertaking will have bad luck if he encounters an old woman. Encountering a young girl will bring him good luck

·        One father can better nourish ten children than ten children can nourish one father.

·        Parents love their children more than do children their parents.

·        The old man saves, his son is a spendthrift.

·        Good deeds are wasted on old men and on rogues.

·        Age pipes and youth dances.

·        The parents' death is often the children's good fortune.

·        Age before beauty.

·        An old man can see backward better than a young one can see forward.

·        If an old man lacks knowledge, at least he has experience.

·        There is wisdom in age.

·        Age deserves honour.

·        He who does not honour age does not deserve age.

·        It is good to grow old in a place where age is honoured.

·        Even bad parents deserve our thanks.

·        With old men take counsel.

·        Old men should be honoured.

·        An old man can be outrun but not out counselled

·        Don’t ever look at anyone that’s dead if you are pregnant. If you do, your baby will die; or wherever you touch yourself, it will mark the baby with a birthmark.

·        Never let a baby look in a mirror before it is a year old, or it will die.

·        A baby that talks before it walks will die.

·        Stop the clock when someone dies.

·        A falling star means someone has gone to heaven.

·        If you dream you are falling and you hit the bottom, you will die.

·        If you dream you lose one of your lower teeth, someone in the family younger than you will die.

·        If you dream of losing an upper tooth, one of your parents will die soon.

·        To dream of a death is a sign of birth.

·        If you dream of birth, it is a sign of death.

·        Turn a mirror to the wall when someone dies, or the first person to look into that mirror will be the next to die.

·        When you dream of death, it is a sign there will be a marriage.

·        When you dream of a marriage, it is a sign of death.

·        A ringing in the ear is a sign of death, and the direction of the death is determined by whichever ear rings.

·        If the oldest one at the table sneezes during breakfast on Sunday morning, you will hear of a death before the week is over.

·        If you get your hair cut during the month of March, you will die before the year is out.

·        If you sleep in the moonlight, you’ll die.

·        If you step over somebody who is lying on the floor, you have to step back across them before they get up, or they will die.

·        If you sing after you go to bed, there will be a death in your family.

·        When a cold chill runs up your back, someone has stepped on your burying ground.

·        If a salesman ever leaves his hat on a bed, he will die.

·        If you sweep under anybody’s bed when they’re sick, they will die.

·        If a picture falls face down and breaks, the person in the picture will die.

·        It is a sign of death to spin a chair on one leg.

·        If you leave a rocking chair rocking, it will cause a death in the family.

·        If a hoe is carried through the house, that hoe will dig your grave.

·        A new house should not be completely finished. Some member of the family will die.

·        To dream of muddy water is a sign of death.

·        A green Christmas indicates the graveyard is going to be filled.

·        A white Christmas indicates there are not going to be many deaths.

·        If you sweep your floors on the first day of the year, you will sweep away one of your family.

·        When the shade of a cedar tree gets big enough to cover a grave, the planter dies.

·        If a bird flutters against the window, it means death to someone inside.

·        If a hen crows, it is a sign of death.

·        If you kill a lightning bug, the lightning will kill you during the next thunderstorm.

·        If a measuring worm is on someone, it is measuring that person for a coffin.

·        If someone walks in your tracks, you will die.

·        Every frog you kill makes your life shorter.