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Small children, a headache; big children, heartache.

Proverbs and old sayings about children

God did not create woman from man's head, that he should command her, nor from his feet, that she should be his slave, but rather from his side, that she should be near his heart.

Proverbs and old sayings about heads, heart, woman, god, man

To watch us dance is to hear our hearts speak.

Proverbs and old sayings about dance

A fire will sear and the sun burn yet more, but neither can match the ardor of a man's heart.

Proverbs and old sayings about sun, fire, fire brigade, heart, man

Soft words butter no parsnips, but they won't harden the heart of the cabbage either.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about heart

Absence is a foe to love; away from the eyes, away from the heart.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about eyes, heart, love

Kind hearts are better than fair faces.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese

A boy living near a buddhist temple can learn an untaught sutra by heart.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about heart

Every little yielding to anxiety is a step away from the natural heart of man.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about heart, man

The bandits in the mountain are easily subjected, but it is difficult to subject the bandits in my heart.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about criminals, heart

God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverbs and old sayings Jewish about god

The rich man carries God in his pocket, the poor man in his heart.

Proverbs and old sayings Jewish about wealth, heart, god, man

Sympathy is a little medicine to soothe the ache in another's heart.

Proverbs and old sayings Jewish about medicine, heart

God created women and women created the hearth.

Proverbs and old sayings about god

When you've heard it you must see it; when you've seen it make a judgement with your heart.

Proverbs and old sayings about heart

For our altars and our hearths.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

Our hearts run riot in prosperity.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about prosperity

Vices creep into our hearts under the name of virtue.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about name, virtue

He assumes a cheerful countenance suppressing the grief which weighs heavily on his heart.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about sadness, heart

The memory of a benefit vanisheth, but the remembrance of an injury sticketh fast in the heart.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about memory, fasting, heart