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The threatener loses the opportunity of vengeance.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about chance

A man may lose his goods for want of demanding them.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about man

Better lose a supper than have a hundred physicians.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

The spoken word sometimes loses what silence has won.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about silence, word

When there is a war between fire and water, fire loses.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about fire, fire brigade, war, water

When fire and water are at war, it is the fire that loses.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about fire, fire brigade, war, water

If you are absent you lose your share.

Proverbs and old sayings about absent

He who becomes blind in his old age does not lose his way.

Proverbs and old sayings about olderness, age, blind, old

If we reject the chaff, we may easily lose the kernel.

Proverbs and old sayings Swedish

If you lose one, there are a thousand more to choose from.

Proverbs and old sayings Swedish

Who is insulted for a long time, finally loses his patience.

Proverbs and old sayings Swedish about patience, time

Men will always lose the battle against cholera and bureaucracy.

Proverbs and old sayings Tibetan about man

When a king is about to lose his power his orders burn more intensely than fire.

Proverbs and old sayings Tibetan about power, fire, fire brigade

A bleeding sheep loses a bite.

Proverbs and old sayings

You must be fully prepared to lose a great deal in order to make a great deal.

Proverbs and old sayings about order

When God wants to please a poor man, He lets him lose his donkey and then helps him find it again.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish about god, man

Better to lose a minute in your life than your life in a minute.

Proverbs and old sayings about life

Who wins first, loses last.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish

You never lose a false coin.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish

Look for cake, and lose your bread.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish