Hares are caught with hounds, fools with praise, and women with gold.
Proverbs and old sayings German about praise
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These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.
Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about criminals, hope
To have a hut built from mud here is better than a palace made from gold and marble on the Arabian Gulf.
Proverbs and old sayings
Flight towards preferment will be but slow without some golden feathers.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about flight
If you are sick, think about your life; if you are better, think about your gold.
Proverbs and old sayings Mongolian about life
Not all the words that were ever uttered are worth weighing on golden scales.
Proverbs and old sayings Norwegian
Love looks through spectacles that make copper look like gold, poverty like riches, and tears like pearls.
Proverbs and old sayings Peruvian about wealth, tears, poverty, love
One for sorrow, two for joy, Three for a girl, four for a boy. Five for silver, six for gold, And seven for a secret that must never be told.
Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about joy, secret, sadness
Men are not weighed by hundredweight, but by the ounce, like gold.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about man
A virgin may travel alone at midnight and be safe, and a purse of gold dropped in the road at midday will never be stolen.
Proverbs and old sayings Syrian
The rubbish we speak is like froth on the water, actions are drops of gold.
Proverbs and old sayings Tibetan about water
