It is better to be alone than to be in bad company.

More Walloon Proverbs

• The chemist doesn’t smell his own medicine.
• In dark weather the devil is in the air.
• It is better to be alone than to be in bad company.
• Fat geese don’t fly far.
• When two poor men help each other, God laughs.
• He who keeps his mouth shut, dies without confession.
• The more the billy goat stinks, the more the nanny goat loves him.
• A tree falls the way it leans.
• As one nail drives out another.
• White flowers are not to be found in a coal sack.
• The tail is always the most difficult part to skin.
• The best ointment comes in small boxes.
• Better warn than be warned.
• Beauty is not so much what you see as what you dream.
• Do what you want, but make sure you are first.
• He started with nothing and still he has just his begging bag.
• Three hairs are quickly combed.
• You only know saints by their miracles.
• Don’t make use of another’s mouth unless it has been leant to you.