Search in folklore: lifetime

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The opportunity of a lifetime is seldom so labeled.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about chance, americans

One moment's error becomes a lifetime of sadness.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about sadness, error, moment

Who teaches me for a day is my father for a lifetime.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about day

A word out of season may mar a whole lifetime.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek about season, word

All the honey a bee gathers during its lifetime doesn't sweeten its sting.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

You have a lifetime to work, but children are only young once.

Proverbs and old sayings Polish about children, work

A day is long, but a lifetime is short.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about day

Better visit hell in your lifetime than after you're dead.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about hell

When the father has eaten too much salt in his lifetime, then his son thereafter will have a great thirst.

Proverbs and old sayings Vietnamese

A dead man is mourned seven days; a fool, his lifetime.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about day, man

If you are planning for a year, sow rice if you are planning for a decade, plant trees if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about people

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime

Proverbs and old sayings Chinese about man, day, old, olderness

Give me a fish and I will eat today, teach me to fish and I will eat for a lifetime.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

If your vision is for a year plant wheat, if you vision is for a decade plant trees, and if your vision is for a lifetime plant people.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about vision, people

Give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day. Teach a man how to fish, he'll eat for a lifetime.

Proverbs and old sayings about old, man, day

Pleasure for one hour, a bottle of wine. Pleasure for one year a marriage; but pleasure for a lifetime, a garden.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about pleasure, marriage, garden, wine

The pleasure of love lasts but a moment, The pain of love lasts a lifetime.

Proverbs and old sayings French about moment, pleasure, pain, love

If youthful pride were wealth, then every man would have had it in his lifetime.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about youth, proudness, wealth, man