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On Saint Candelora day, if it's snowing or raining, there'll be another forty days of winter.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about day, saints

If you don't know by age twenty, don't do by age thrity, don't have by age forty, you will never know, never do, and never have.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about age, olderness

He who at twenty understands nothing, at thirty knows nothing, and at forty has nothing, will lead a wretched old age.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about nothing, olderness, age, old

He that is not gallant at twenty, strong at thirty, rich at forty, or experienced at fifty, will never be gallant, strong, rich, or prudent.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about prudence, wealth

At twenty a man will be a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy a monkey, and at eighty nothing.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about nothing, man

They made the garlic a bride, its smell did not come out for forty days.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish about day