Insults must be written in sand and compliments carved in stone.
Proverbs and old sayings about insults
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Insults should be well avenged or well endured.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about insults
The wise man forgets insults as the ungrateful forget benefits.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about insults, man
An army is driven back by courage and not by insults, however many.
Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about insults, courage
Words of insults are futile, the more they fit, the more they are lost.
Proverbs and old sayings Icelandic about insults
He who insults another, digs two graves.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about insults
Whoever does not respect you, insults you.
Proverbs and old sayings Moroccan about insults, respect
The shovel insults the poker.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian about poker, insults
Soup must be hot -- insults cold.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about insults
If they are uttering insults and don't mean you, and yet you reply, you have condemned yourself.
Proverbs and old sayings about insults
Don't insult the alligator until you've crossed the river.
Proverbs and old sayings Hatian
Don't insult the dead.
Proverbs and old sayings West African
A beggar won't mind being insulted.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about being, mind
Do not insult a crocodile while your feet are still in the water.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about water
Never insult your enemy while you're laying down unless there is someone else standing by.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about enemies
An insult is but a short garment: it reveals the one who wears it.
Proverbs and old sayings
No prepotent man will insult other people for two consecutive seasons.
Proverbs and old sayings about people, man
When you eat an egg do not insult the chicken.
Proverbs and old sayings
If you want dinner, don't insult the cook.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese
Only one who can swallow an insult is a man.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about man
