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Those who conceal their grief find no remedy for it.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish about sadness

One joy scatters a hundred griefs.

Proverbs and old sayings Chinese about joy

There are three things that refresh the heart and reduce your grief water, flowers, and a beautiful woman.

Proverbs and old sayings about sadness, flowers, things, heart, woman, water

Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.

Proverbs and old sayings British about marriage

One joy shatters a hundred griefs.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about joy

Just as a medicine may not cure a serious illness, wine will certainly not dispel your grief.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about sadness, medicine, wine

Rather a piece of bread with a happy heart than wealth with grief.

Proverbs and old sayings Egyptian about sadness, wealth, happiness, heart

If you are up to your knees in pleasure, then you are up to your waist in grief.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about sadness, pleasure

Great griefs are mute.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

Light griefs can speak, but deeper ones are dumb.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about light

It is a solace to the miserable to have a companion in their grief.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about sadness

The wrong-headed fool who refuses counsel, will come to grief.

Proverbs and old sayings about sadness, moral, bad

All griefs with bread are less.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

Compare your griefs with other men's and they will seem less.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about man

Compare your griefs with those of other men and they will seem less.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about man

Who swims in sin will sink in sorrow.

Proverbs and old sayings British about sadness, sin

Traditional Wexford Curse

May the grass grow at your door and the fox build his nest on your hearthstone.
May the light fade from your eyes, so you never see what you love.
May your own blood rise against you, and the sweetest drink you...

Spells and incantations British

Sorrow for a husband is like a pain in the elbow, sharp and short.

Proverbs and old sayings English about pain, husband, sadness

Thirst is the end of drinking and sorrow is the end of drunkenness.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about drunkenness, drinking, end, sadness

Sorrow is like a precious treasure, shown only to friends.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about treasure, sadness