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When a tree is falling, every one cries, down with it.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

Preventing someone from falling is better than helping him get up.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

Eat before falling in love.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about love

There is nothing shameful in falling before a superior enemy.

Proverbs and old sayings about enemies, nothing

Only by falling do you learn how to mount a horse.

Proverbs and old sayings

Though a tree grows ever so high, the falling leaves return to its roots.

Proverbs and old sayings Guatemalan

After Falling, The ladder falls on you.

Proverbs and old sayings Malaysian

Though a tree grows so high, the falling leaves return to the root.

Proverbs and old sayings Malaysian

Giving advice to the ignorant is like the rain falling on muddy ground.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about advice, rain

Stumbling is not falling.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about obstacles

Rats desert a falling house.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about home, house

Who stumbles without falling makes a bigger step.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

Colts by falling, and lads by losing, grow prudent.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about prudence

To stumble is not falling down but it is to go forward.

Proverbs and old sayings

Ability will enable a man to get to the top, but character will keep him from falling.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about ability, character, americans, man

If you sleep under a tree, you can't prevent the leaf from falling on you.

Proverbs and old sayings Hatian about salary, sleep

It befits the king to be liberal, for he is sure of never falling into poverty.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about poverty