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Drink makes you forget your sorrow; but only, alas, until tomorrow.

Proverbs and old sayings German about sadness, drinking

The bridge between joy and sorrow is not long. Confidence begets confidence.

Proverbs and old sayings German about joy, sadness

There is no joy without sorrow.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian about joy, sadness

To long for everything: sorrow; to accept everything: joy.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about joy, sadness

Poverty creates sadness.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about sadness, poverty

That's a spoon ye'll sup sorrow with yet.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about sadness

He who sings drives away sorrow.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about sadness

Sorrow is the seed of wealth.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about sadness, wealth

The dog called Sorrow, without eating, will be fat in every house.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about sadness, home, house

Only through suffering and sorrow do we acquire the wisdom not found in books.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about suffering, books, sadness, wisdom

Sorrow follows pleasure.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about pleasure, sadness

Sorrow brings on premature old age.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about olderness, sadness, age, old

Give wine to them that are in sorrow.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about sadness, wine

Sorrow and ill weather come unsent for.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about weather, sadness

Sorrow dwells on the confines of pleasure.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about pleasure, sadness

He who increases knowledge, increases sorrow.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about knowledge, sadness

Seek not the luxuries of life lest you reap sorrow.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about sadness, life

Man is himself the author of every sorrow he endures.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about sadness, man

It is cruel to refer to those things which cause sorrow.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about sadness, things

If it weren't for sorrow and bad times, every day would be Christmas.

Proverbs and old sayings Lithuanian about christmas, sadness, bad luck, day, bad