He is a fool who boasts of four things: that he has good wine, a good horse, a handsome wife, and plenty of money.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about wine, wife, good, good luck, things, money
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Life without endeavor is like entering a jewel-mine and coming out with empty hands.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about life
With money in your pocket, you are wise, and you are handsome, and you sing well too.
Proverbs and old sayings Jewish about money
If a man’s beard is on fire, there are bound to be plenty of people who will want to warm their hands on the fire.
Proverbs and old sayings about fire, fire brigade, people, man
Indecision is like the stepchild: if he doesn't wash his hands, he is called dirty; if he does, he is wasting the water.
Proverbs and old sayings about water
A man who lives on the bank of a river does not use spittle to wash his hands.
Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian about bankers, use, man
If I haven't eaten wheat-bread, I've seen it in people's hands.
Proverbs and old sayings Persian about haven, people
If a fool borrows a book cut off his hand; but cut off both hands of the fool who brings it back.
Proverbs and old sayings Persian
Hold your children with your heart but teach them with your hands.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian about children, heart
If you do not strike back at him who hits you, there is no way for him to find out whether you also have hands.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian
Pluck it from among the thistles, and we will take it off your hands.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish
At an ambuscade of villains a man does better with his feet than his hands.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about criminals, man
It is better to be a mouse in a cat's mouth than a man in a lawyer's hands.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about man
The bush fowl saw the chicken being carved up and laughed. The chicken told the bush fowl to stop laughing. For the same hands now carving up the chicken would be used to carve up the bush fowl.
Proverbs and old sayings about being
In the end, the well being of the pono, will be in the hands of the commoner.
Proverbs and old sayings Tahitian about being, end
If everything that came from your tongue were to come into your hands, then every beggar would be a pasha.
Proverbs and old sayings Turkish
