Hours are Time's shafts, and one comes winged with death.
Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about death, time
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Hours once lost cannot be regained.
Proverbs and old sayings Yugoslavian
There are only twenty-four hours in a day.
Proverbs and old sayings British about day
Six hours' sleep for a man, seven for a woman and eight for a fool.
Proverbs and old sayings English about sleep, woman, man
The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.
Proverbs and old sayings British about measure, wisdom
A spared body only goes twenty-four hours further that another.
Proverbs and old sayings Bengali about body
Happy people never count hours as they pass.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about happiness, people
Six hours for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.
Proverbs and old sayings English about woman, man
A great estate is not gotten in a few hours.
Proverbs and old sayings French about real estate
The sun-dial counts only the bright hours.
Proverbs and old sayings German about sun
A Kerry shower is of twenty-four hours.
Proverbs and old sayings Irish
If the hours are long enough and the pay is short enough, someone will say it's women's work.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about work
All the hours wound, the last one kills.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin
All the hours wound you, the last one kills.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin
Seven hours of sleep is enough for the young and the aged.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about sleep
Imperceptibly the hours glide on, and beguile us as they pass.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin
Late hours and love and wine lead not to moderation in anything.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about wine, love
Vulnerant omnia, ultima necat. (All the hours wound you, the last one kills)
Proverbs and old sayings Latin
All the hours wound you, the last one kills. [Vulnerant omnia, ultima necat. ]
Proverbs and old sayings Latin
Let but the hours of idleness cease, and the bow of Cupid will become broken and his torch extinguished.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin
