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The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.

Proverbs and old sayings British about measure, wisdom

Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.

Proverbs and old sayings Polish about rightness, day

Two clocks don't run alike; two men don't think alike.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about man, americans

Many men are like clocks that show one hour and strike another.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about man

The clock ticks nowhere else the way it does at home.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about home

Fools ask what's o'clock, but wise men know their time.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about man, time

Even a broken clock is right twice a day.

Proverbs and old sayings English about rightness, day

Even the clock shows the time without knowing anything.

Proverbs and old sayings Finnish about time

No clock is more regular than the belly.

Proverbs and old sayings French

A happy man does not hear the clock strike.

Proverbs and old sayings German about happiness, man

The costliest clock can show only sixty minutes in every hour.

Proverbs and old sayings

It goes like clockwork.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

Every dog got dem diay, Every puss dem 4 O' clock.

Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican

Even the most expensive clock still shows sixty minutes in every hour.

Proverbs and old sayings Jewish

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

Proverbs and old sayings Polish about rightness, day

Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day.

Proverbs and old sayings Polish about rightness, work, day

If it were not for the hands, the clock would be useless.

Proverbs and old sayings Polish

In vain is the mill-clock if the miller his hearing lack.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian

It's too late to rise early when you wake eleven o'clock.

Proverbs and old sayings

Memory is life's clock.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about memory, life