Search in folklore: gain

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Gain from your opponents without sacrificing your own strength.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese

Gain has a pleasant odour, come whence it will.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese

No pain, no gain

Proverbs and old sayings British about pain

One man's loss is another man's gain.

Proverbs and old sayings English about man

What you lose on the swings you gain on the roundabouts

Proverbs and old sayings British about contentment, old, olderness

Use people who have something to gain, not people with nothing to lose.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about people, use, nothing

A hunter who is never satisfied with is gain will one day be forced to carry home an elephant.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about hunters, home, day

No risk, no gain.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about risk, americans

Hope of gain lessens pain.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about pain, hope, americans

Pain is forgotten where gain comes.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about pain, americans

You won't gain knowledge by drinking ink.

Proverbs and old sayings about drinking, knowledge, contentment

The fruit of timidity is neither gain nor loss.

Proverbs and old sayings

The one who does not risk anything does not gain nor lose.

Proverbs and old sayings Bengali about risk

Continually give, continually gain.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

A fall into a ditch, a gain in your wit.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about fall

A smile will gain you ten more years of life.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about smile, life, contentment

A day of reading is a day of gain; a day without reading is ten days of loss.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about day

A horse cannot gain weight if not fed with extra fodder during the night; a man cannot become wealthy without earnings apart from his regular salaries.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about salary, night, man

You may gain by fair words what may fail you by angry ones.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about word, contentment

When one is helping another, both gain in strength.

Proverbs and old sayings