Hopes delayed hang the heart upon tenter-hooks.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about heart
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The farmer hopes for rain, the walker hopes for sunshine, and the gods hesitate.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about gods, rain
What one hopes for is always better than what one has.
Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian
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
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
He who lives in hopes, breakfasts ill and sups worse.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish
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
