You can close the city gates, but you can't close the people's mouths. It's better to flee and stay alive than to die and become a hero. A timely tear is better than a misplaced smile.
Proverbs and old sayings about heroism, city, smile, people
Fortune will call at the smiling gate.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about wealth
The acolyte at the gate reads scriptures he has never learned.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese
Let it be well recorded that a harlot is a gate which leads to death.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about death
We taught them how to beg, they raced us to the gates.
Proverbs and old sayings Lebanese
There is no queue at the gate of Patience.
Proverbs and old sayings Moroccan about patience
The village gate can be closed, the mouth of the fool, never.
Proverbs and old sayings Moroccan
You can close the city gates but not the mouths of men.
Proverbs and old sayings Persian about city, man
He/She is gaping like a calf at the painted gate.
Proverbs and old sayings Polish
Fortune knocks once at least at every man's gate.
Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about wealth, man
Trouble is here, so open the gates.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian
The castle gates will always open for gold-laden donkeys.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian
A man may speir the gate to Rome.
Proverbs and old sayings about man
Many man speirs the gate he kens full well.
Proverbs and old sayings about man
Ane Begger is wae, another by the gate gae.
Proverbs and old sayings
It that lies not in your gate, breaks not your shins.
Proverbs and old sayings
It is good to be out of harms gate.
Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about good, good luck