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Fortune never comes with both hands full.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about wealth, americans

When life hands you lemons, make lemonade.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about life, americans

Only the tent pitched by your own hands will stand.

Proverbs and old sayings

Do not let what you cannot do tear from your hands what you can.

Proverbs and old sayings

Wash your hands in the flowing Ganges.

Proverbs and old sayings

All we can hold in our cold dead hands is what we have given away.

Proverbs and old sayings

De devil does find work for evil hands to do.

Proverbs and old sayings about work, devil

Wriggling hands like young bride's legs.

Proverbs and old sayings Bulgarian

Many people wash their hands to have dinner with the bishop, only a few sit down to his table.

Proverbs and old sayings Bulgarian about people

Active hands, full bellies.

Proverbs and old sayings Cambodian

The fire cannot be put out with your hands.

Proverbs and old sayings Cameroonian about fire, fire brigade

A thief has more than two hands.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about thieves

Do not employ handsome servants.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

If life is fulfilled we go away with empty hands.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about life

The beginning and the end reach out their hands to each other.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about beginning, end

Flowers leave a part of their fragrance in the hands that bestow them.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about flowers

Clean hands offend no one.

Proverbs and old sayings Columbian

One hand washes the other, both hands wash the face.

Proverbs and old sayings about face

If someone isn't handsome by nature, it's useless for them to wash over and over again.

Proverbs and old sayings about nature

Long tongue -- short hands.

Proverbs and old sayings Czech