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Who is born of a cat will run after mice. (An illusion to one of Aesop's fables. )

Proverbs and old sayings French

There's one born every minute.

Proverbs and old sayings German

As soon a man is born he begins to die.

Proverbs and old sayings German about man

One should be born either a king or a fool.

Proverbs and old sayings German

I wept when I was born, and every day shows why.

Proverbs and old sayings German about day

He that is born to be hanged will never be drowned.

Proverbs and old sayings German

Yorkshire born and Yorkshire bred, strong in the arm and weak in the head.

Proverbs and old sayings German about heads

He who is born to misfortunate stumbles as he goes, and though he fall on his back will fracture his nose.

Proverbs and old sayings German about fall

He who is born in jail loves jail.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek

If you are born an ass, you will die one.

Proverbs and old sayings

There's no rain without thunder, and no children born without pain.

Proverbs and old sayings about pain, rain, children

No matter if the child's born blind, as long as it doesn't beg.

Proverbs and old sayings about blind, children

In death, I am born.

Proverbs and old sayings about death

Cultures are born and die, but the cheese is immortal.

Proverbs and old sayings Icelandic about immortality

The baby is not yet born, and yet you say that his nose is like his grandfather's.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian

The baby has not been born yet, and yet you assert that his nose is like his grandfather's.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian

They are flies that are born of a wasp.

Proverbs and old sayings

We were born to die anyhow.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

Only those who were born to hang are not afraid of the water.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about water

A person born to be a flower pot will not go beyond the porch.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about garden, people