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A flatterer must not lose his temper.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish

If you have nothing to lose, you can try everything.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about nothing

It's not so terrible when you lose money. when courage is lost, all is lost.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about courage, money

If a person is fated to drown, he'll lose his life even in a teaspoon of water.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about people, life, water

Ones neighbours problems, does not induce one to lose their appetite over them.

Proverbs and old sayings about problems

Use people who have something to gain, not people with nothing to lose.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about people, use, nothing

Don't be stupid to replace wisdom with knowledge because you will lose understanding.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about knowledge, wisdom

The palm-wine we drink, some people can drink it and remain wise; others lose all their senses.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about drinking, wine, people

If you offer to share your seat with a person who has a big bottom your bound to lose it completely.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about people

He's no fool who parts with what he can't keep to get what he shall not lose.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans

If you forsake a certainty and depend on an uncertainty, you will lose both the certainty and the uncertainty.

Proverbs and old sayings

What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset..

Proverbs and old sayings about shadow, night, life

It is a little thing to starve to death; it is a serious matter to lose one's virtue.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about virtue, things, death

The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about olderness, age, woman, old

The camel asking for horns lost also his ears. [In grasping for things we need not, we often lose what we have. ]

Proverbs and old sayings English about need, things

Who does not venture gets neither horse nor mule, and who ventures too much lose horse and mule.

Proverbs and old sayings French

Who carries doubtful people to his house, will doubtless from his carriage something lose.

Proverbs and old sayings German about home, house, people

With a good son-in-law you gain a son, with a bad one you lose your daughter, too.

Proverbs and old sayings about law, bad luck, bad, good, good luck

A man finds what he takes to be small; it will only be big again when he loses it.

Proverbs and old sayings about man

You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about courage