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Calling out for mother, only when you stumble.

Proverbs and old sayings about mother

Calling the devil is not the same as seeing him come.

Proverbs and old sayings about devil

Friends are lost by calling often and calling seldom.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

Friends are lost by calling too often and by not calling often enough.

Proverbs and old sayings French

A pot calling a kettle black.

Proverbs and old sayings Romanian about magic

The pot calling the kettle black

Proverbs and old sayings British about magic, old, olderness

The beginning of wisdom is calling things by their right names.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about beginning, wisdom, rightness, things

High calling brings a high fall.

Proverbs and old sayings about fall

Every one to his own calling, and the ox to the plough.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

He that does not bring up his son to some honest calling and employment, brings him up to be a thief.

Proverbs and old sayings Jewish about thieves

Every man must walk in his own calling.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about man

Wild ducks and tomorrow both come without calling.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian

You shout in vain when you're calling the deaf.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.

Proverbs and old sayings German about courage, virtue, war, love

When once at sea, do not long to be on shore. [Be satisfied with your calling in life. ]

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about life