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Do you see a man who is wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

Proverbs and old sayings about hope, eyes, man

Happiness is something to do, something to love, something to hope for.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about happiness, hope, love

Things never go so well that someone should have no fear, nor so bad that someone should have no hope.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about hope, fear, things, bad luck, bad

The miserable got together with the hopeless.

Proverbs and old sayings Egyptian

He who is hopeless is capable of everything.

Proverbs and old sayings French

There's no eel so small but it hopes to become a whale.

Proverbs and old sayings German

There is no eel so small but it hopes to become a whale.

Proverbs and old sayings German

Man hopes until his death.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian about death, man

Who is in the right fears, who is in the wrong hopes.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about bad, rightness

Instead of a treasure, coals! [ 'Rum, ' I hopes! 'Baccy, ' I thinks! 'Tracts, ' by jingo! Sailor's remark on discovering that he had picked up a bottle of tracts. ]

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about treasure

None so old that he hopes not for a year of life.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about life, old, olderness

Yesterday is a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore to this day.

Proverbs and old sayings Sanskrit about vision, dream, happiness, hope, day

Nane sae weel but he hopes to be better.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

Who hopes for alms from the priests, winds up at the insane asylum.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

Timely rain cheers my soul; water and sun during seeding, inspires hope; the rains of April and May are late at night; then the good mornings, will be the wealth of the houses.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about soul, wealth, hope, rain, sun, night, water, good, good luck

He who lives in hopes, breakfasts ill and sups worse.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

Happiness requires something to do, something to love and something to hope for.

Proverbs and old sayings about happiness, hope, love

A successful writer has a good memory and hopes that others do not have it.

Proverbs and old sayings Swedish about writers, memory, good, good luck

A guest will not eat what he hopes for but what he finds.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish

Things never go so well that one should have no fear, and never so ill that one should have no hope.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish about hope, fear, things