Walloon proverbs

Walloon is a language spoken in Belgium and France.

A

 * Après l ' plaive, i vint l bai timps.
 * English equivalent: After rain comes fair weather.

C

 * Charité bin ordonnée comminche pa li même
 * English equivalent: Charity begins at home.
 * English equivalent: Charity begins at home.

I

 * I vât mi d'esse tot seu qu'és mâle kipagneie.
 * Translation: It is better to be alone than to be in bad company.
 * English equivalent: Better be alone than in bad company.
 * Source for proverb:


 * In homme prévenu in vaut deux.
 * English equivalent: Fore warned, fore armed.
 * "Other dogs bite only their enemies, whereas I bite also my friends in order to save them."
 * Diogenes of Sinope Stobaeus, iii. 13. 44 (500)

L

 * Li pomme ni tomme nin lon de l'souche.
 * English equivalent: The apple does not fall far from the tree.
 * Meaning: Children observe daily and — in their behaviour — often follow the example of their parents.
 * Source for meaning:

O

 * On clâ chesse le a'ute.
 * English equivalent: One nail drives out another.
 * "As one nail drives out another, So the remembrance of my former love Is by a newer object quite forgotten."
 * William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice (1592)

P

 * Pus n-y-a-t-i d' cohun divins n'couhenne, pus male est l'sope.
 * English equivalent: A public hall is never swept.

Q

 * Qui compte so les solers d on moirt court risse di roter longtimps tot d hâs.
 * English equivalent: Don't wait for dead mens shoes.


 * Qui qwire, trouwe.
 * English equivalent: Seek and ye shall find.


 * Quî va douc’mint, va longtimps.
 * English equivalent: By perserverance the snail reached the arc.

R

 * Rome n a pas été bâtie en un jour.
 * English equivalent: Rome wasn't built in a day.

S

 * Ses poies c est des âwes.
 * English equivalent: Every man thinks his own geese swans.