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The end of mirth is the beginning of sorrow.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about beginning, sadness, end

A pennyworth of mirth is worth a pound of sorrow.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about sadness

Sorrow is always dry.

Proverbs and old sayings English about sadness

Fire is love and water sorrow.

Proverbs and old sayings English about sadness, fire, fire brigade, water, love

Sorrow remembered sweetens present joy.

Proverbs and old sayings English about present, joy, sadness

Laugh till you cry, sorrow till you die.

Proverbs and old sayings English about sadness

A bellyful is one of meat, drink, or sorrow.

Proverbs and old sayings English about sadness, drinking

The safest antidote against sorrow is employment.

Proverbs and old sayings English about sadness

He gains enough who loses sorrow.

Proverbs and old sayings French about sadness

Help you to salt, help you to sorrow.

Proverbs and old sayings French about help, sadness

Sadness and gladness succeed each other.

Proverbs and old sayings French about sadness

One for sorrow; two for mirth; three for a wedding; four for a birth.

Proverbs and old sayings French about marriage, sadness

Every day good luck to thee, and no day of sorrow be.

Proverbs and old sayings about good luck, sadness, bad luck, day, good

Sorrow does not pay any debts.

Proverbs and old sayings German about sadness

When sorrow is asleep wake it not.

Proverbs and old sayings German about sadness

Two in distress makes sorrow the less.

Proverbs and old sayings German about sadness

Joy and sorrow are next door neighbours.

Proverbs and old sayings German about joy, sadness

Joy and sorrow are to-day and to-morrow.

Proverbs and old sayings German about joy, sadness, day

Beauty is the eye's food but the soul's sorrow.

Proverbs and old sayings German about soul, sadness, beauty, food

Who makes his bed on the morrow; goes all day without sorrow.

Proverbs and old sayings German about sadness, day