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One who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; one who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about question

Your friend lends and your enemy asks payment.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about enemies

Your friend lends and your enemy asks for payment.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about enemies

Who asks a lot will get wiser.

Proverbs and old sayings Estonian

He who asks won't lose his way.

Proverbs and old sayings Finnish

One stupid person asks more than ten wise ones can spare time answering.

Proverbs and old sayings Finnish about people, time

Who serves well asks enough.

Proverbs and old sayings French

He who sees leather cut asks for a thong.

Proverbs and old sayings French

He asks advice in vain who will not follow it.

Proverbs and old sayings French about advice

The Russian knows the way, yet he asks for directions.

Proverbs and old sayings German

He who answers is inferior to the one who asks the question.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about question

When a friend asks, there is no tomorrow.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

Only a fool asks, What do you want with my wife?

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about wife

To him who can take what thou hast, give what he asks.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

The matchmaker always asks for too much money for his eight hundred lies.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about money

A confused man is like the drowning man who asks for pears from the willow tree.

Proverbs and old sayings about man

Fortune is fickle and soon asks back what he has given.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about wealth

How you come by it no one asks; but wealth you must have.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about wealth

He who cannot even manage a yacht asks for a ship of burthen!

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

Do not refuse the body what it asks for.

Proverbs and old sayings Mexican about body