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Annoy your doctor and sickness comes in laughing.

Proverbs and old sayings

The ancestors may annoy you but don't make a mistake of annoying them back, they may annoy you forever.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about mistake, ancestors

Good advice is often annoying, bad advice never.

Proverbs and old sayings French about advice, bad luck, bad, good, good luck

If you get annoyed of what you see, you blame your eyes.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about eyes

He who gets annoyed of darkness ends up knocking himself everywhere.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about end

If you want to annoy the devil stay silent.

Proverbs and old sayings Bulgarian about devil

If an enemy is annoying you by playing well, consider adopting his strategy.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about enemies

Good advice is often annoying -- bad advice never is.

Proverbs and old sayings French about advice, bad luck, bad, good, good luck

Many annoyances surround an aged man.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about man

He puts up with small annoyances to gain great results.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

In the midst of our mirth some annoyance always arises to vex us.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

A fool shows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.

Proverbs and old sayings about prudence, man

After joy comes annoy.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about joy

Maybe you should do something to injure or annoy the bad one.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about bad luck, bad

The snail, to be rid of annoyances, bartered its eyes for horns.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about eyes

The death throes of an elephant are not so annoying as a living flea.

Proverbs and old sayings Zulu about death

A fly, a harlot, a beggar, a rat, and gusty wind; the village-boss and the tax collector - these seven are always annoying to others.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about heads

The woman who always complains and is never satisfied with anything is like an annoying flea on the foot.

Proverbs and old sayings about woman