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Saint Swithun's day, if thou be fair, for forty days it will remain; Saint Swithun's day, if thou bring rain, for forty days it will remain.

Proverbs and old sayings German about day, saints, rain

St. Swithin's Day, if thou dost rain, for forty days it will remain; St. Swithin's Day, if thou be fair, for forty days 'twill rain no more.

Proverbs and old sayings about day, rain

In America half an hour is forty minutes.

Proverbs and old sayings German

One idiot threw a stone in the well, forty wise people could not get it out.

Proverbs and old sayings Armenian about people

Life begins at forty

Proverbs and old sayings British about life, old, olderness

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

Proverbs and old sayings West African about common sense, sense

The doorstep weeps for forty days whenever a girl is born.

Proverbs and old sayings about day

A horse which is tamed at forty is only good for resurrection day.

Proverbs and old sayings about day, good, good luck

Women are as beautiful as flowers when they are forty years old.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about flowers, old, olderness

A fool at forty is a fool indeed.

Proverbs and old sayings English

He who eats of the king's goose will void a feather forty years after.

Proverbs and old sayings French

In America an hour is forty minutes.

Proverbs and old sayings German

Till age forty it is better to eat. after that, drinking is better.

Proverbs and old sayings about drinking, age, olderness

A cup of coffee commits one to forty years of friendship.

Proverbs and old sayings about friendship

A man at forty is either a fool or a physician.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about man

A full pistol scares one person, an emty one scares forty people.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish about people

A madman drops a stone in a well, but forty wise men cannot take it out.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish about man

He that at twenty is not, at thirty knows not, and at forty has not, will never be, nor ever know, nor ever have.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

A faultless person has seven faults, a faulty person forty-eight faults.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about people