Proverbs | Mean | Std. Deviation |
The dog jumps according to the stick. | 4.2373 | 1.23650 |
Apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. | 4.1186 | 1.11548 |
The wolf has a thick neck, because he does his job on his own. | 4.0847 | 1.17866 |
If you know how to wait, sooner or later your time will come. | 3.9661 | 1.23129 |
Woman shall be for bad and for good. | 3.8136 | 1.37056 |
There are two gifts we shall give our children. One is roots and the other is wings. | 3.7458 | 1.40925 |
You are as good as the company you keep. | 3.6441 | 1.39905 |
You can build a house on a father’s blessing. | 3.6102 | 1.37737 |
Spank the small bottom, if you don’t want to spank a big one. | 3.5763 | 1.49946 |
Don’t laugh too much, because you will cry later. | 3.5593 | 1.31662 |
Man is the head of the family and woman is its soul. | 3.5593 | 1.36800 |
Woman is judged by how she keeps the house, and man – by what he brings in. | 3.5424 | 1.45415 |
Where the dog whelped, there it got its habits. | 3.5424 | 1.30413 |
Break the snake’s head while it is still small. | 3.4746 | 1.52401 |
If heart will allow, and hand will not allow, then nothing will follow. | 3.4237 | 1.48792 |
If there is no fear, there is no shame. | 3.4068 | 1.48694 |
A curse spoken by father may bury a son. | 3.1186 | 1.52094 |
Each goat on her own leg stands. | 3.0847 | 1.42983 |
Meek lamb sucks two mothers. | 3.0678 | 1.48399 |
I good heart prays to God, a naughty one bitterly cries. | 3.0678 | 1.42471 |
Man is the master of the house and woman is its adornment. | 3.0508 | 1.50200 |
Woman has a bag full of tears for everyone. | 2.9831 | 1.46795 |
He who was married as a joke shall wear his horns. | 2.9322 | 1.65950 |
Woman cares for a man only when she sees him. | 2.8983 | 1.50511 |
Let your son marry when you like to, and give your daughter to marriage when she is asked for. | 2.8305 | 1.49888 |
Even if the man brings in with both hands full, when the woman takes out with just a little finger, the house will always be empty. | 2.8136 | 1.58086 |
Make him marry to restrain his fury. | 2.6610 | 1.42163 |
Woman shall not know and say too much. | 2.6271 | 1.65985 |
Woman always says “Give me, husband”, and never “Give me, God”. | 2.4915 | 1.48988 |
If you don’t slap a woman’s neck once a week, she will not stay in the nest. | 2.1356 | 1.40759 |