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To a seamen of Kwale, death by water is common experience.

Proverbs and old sayings about common sense, experience, death, water

He who does not have common sense at age thirty will never have it.

Proverbs and old sayings about common sense, sense, age, olderness

When two friends have a common bank account, one sings and the other weeps.

Proverbs and old sayings about bankers, common sense

Knowledge, humbles a great person, astonishes the common, and puffs up the small.

Proverbs and old sayings about common sense, knowledge, people

Seek advice but use your own common sense.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about common sense, sense, advice, use

Parents can give everything but common sense.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about common sense, parents, sense

There are forty kinds of lunacy, but only one kind of common sense.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about common sense, sense

The conversation of the wise concerns ideas; that of the intelligent is about ideas; the common folk talk about food.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about conversation, common sense, food

Many a cow stands in the meadow and looks wistfully at the common.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about common sense

Reputation is commonly measured by the acre.

Proverbs and old sayings English about prestige

Our fear commonly meets us at the door by which we think to run from it.

Proverbs and old sayings English about fear

Never, Never... allow anyone to persuade you to suspend your common sense.

Proverbs and old sayings English about common sense, sense

Fine birds are commonly plucked.

Proverbs and old sayings French

Great talkers are commonly liars.

Proverbs and old sayings German

When prominent persons fights, commoners would suffer.

Proverbs and old sayings about people, suffering

Avarice commonly occasions injury to the person who displays it.

Proverbs and old sayings Mexican about people

He that leaves the highway to cut short, commonly goes about.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian

Scorn makes commonly with skaith.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

Every cock crows loudest on his own dunghill, is a saying common to all nations.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about nation, common sense

When the drop (drink) is inside, the sense is outside.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about common sense, sense, drinking