If you are offered a bull, do not ask how much milk he will give.
Proverbs and old sayings
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All we can hold in our cold dead hands is what we have given away.
Proverbs and old sayings
The wise must be respected, even when the advice they give is not suitable.
Proverbs and old sayings about advice
Ninety-nine lies may help you, but the hundredth will give you away.
Proverbs and old sayings about help
The scent of a rose will always stay on the hand of the giver.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese
You can mirror something from other people; you can only give out that which is your own.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about people
If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don't give advice.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about advice
March, mean, son of an ogre! You've taken all my suckling lambs and left only one weaned lamb. - Oh April, my brother, give me two days, because alone, I don't have them.
Proverbs and old sayings about day
Take care how you beseech the gods for a gift, for they will give it to you.
Proverbs and old sayings about gifts
He is of the race of Johnny Van Cleeve; who would always much rather have than give.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch
If you want to clear the land secretly, the noise of the axe will give you away.
Proverbs and old sayings
The generous man pays for nothing so much as what is given him.
Proverbs and old sayings English about nothing, man
If you lend something you may lose it, but not if you give it.
Proverbs and old sayings French
A little dinner, long expected and cold, is by no means given, but dearly sold.
Proverbs and old sayings French
Entreat him in jackass fashion; if he won't carry the sack, give him a whack.
Proverbs and old sayings German about fashion
Through faith man experiences the meaning of the world; through action he is to give it meaning.
Proverbs and old sayings about action, faith, world, man
A guest should not cause his host's demise. When the guest is ready to leave, his host should not have given him a hunch-back.
Proverbs and old sayings Igbo
A stone thrown at the right time is better than gold given at the wrong time.
Proverbs and old sayings about time, bad, rightness
Humor to a man is like a feather pillow. It is filled with what is easy to get but gives great comfort.
Proverbs and old sayings Irish about humor, man
The woman who gives is seldom good; the woman who accepts is in the power of the giver.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about woman, power, good, good luck
