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If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about moment, anger, day, sadness

You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about sadness, heads

Wedded in September, widow or sorrow.

Proverbs and old sayings about sadness

If sorrow would not talk it would die.

Proverbs and old sayings Croatian about sadness

Joy and sorrow sleep in the same bed.

Proverbs and old sayings Czech about joy, sadness, sleep

Sorrow seldom comes alone.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about sadness

Shared sorrow is half sorrow.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about sadness

Joy surfeited turns to sorrow.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about joy, sadness

A child's sorrow is short-lived.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about sadness, children

Along in counsel, alone in sorrow.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about moral, sadness

That which comes with sin, goes with sorrow.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about sadness, sin

Children are certain sorrow, but uncertain joy.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about joy, sadness, children

When joy is in the parlour, sorrow is in the passage.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about joy, sadness

The drunken man's joy is often the sober man's sorrow.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about joy, sadness, man

A hundred waggonsful of sorrow will not pay a handful of debt.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about sadness

He who loves sorrow, will always find something to mourn over.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about sadness

The person who loves sorrow will always find something to moan about.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about sadness, people

No choice is ever wholly unregretted, each brings more joy and more sorrow than we can foresee.

Proverbs and old sayings about joy, sadness

Sorrow will pay no debts.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about sadness

To-day's sorrow brings nought to-morrow.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about sadness, day