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Drinking with a bosom friend, a thousand shots are too few; Talking with a disagreeable person, half a sentence is too many.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about drinking, talking, people

A thousand cups of wine do not suffice when true friends meet, but half a sentence is too much when there is no meeting of minds.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about wine

The person who is tired will find time to sleep. A person with a bad name is already half hanged.

Proverbs and old sayings English about people, name, sleep, time, bad luck, bad

When you have completed 95 of your journey you are halfway there.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese

He who would go a hundred miles should consider ninety-nine as halfway.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese

What raging rashly is begun, Challengeth shame before half done.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about shame

Not to know the good we have Till time has stolen the cherish'd gift away, Is cause of half the misery that we feel, And makes the world the wilderness it is.

Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian about gifts, world, time, good, good luck

He who wants to be rich in a year comes to the gallows in half a year.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about wealth