Search in folklore: loses

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Consideration gets as many victories as rashness loses.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

When it's warm the pea loses its pod.

Proverbs and old sayings Guatemalan

He loses his thanks who promises and delays.

Proverbs and old sayings Mexican

Parrots are green everywhere; the idiot loses wherever he is.

Proverbs and old sayings Mexican

If a centipede loses a leg, it can still walk.

Proverbs and old sayings

It is the mind that wins or loses.

Proverbs and old sayings Nepalese about mind

What a young absorbs, the old loses.

Proverbs and old sayings Polish about old, olderness

He who all wants, all loses.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese

He who goes out to sea loses his place.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese

The pot that boils too much loses its flavour.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese

One never loses by doing a good turn.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about good, good luck

He who is afraid of death, loses his life.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about death, life

The tailor that makes not a knot loses a stitch.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian

He that has time and looks for time, loses time.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about time

He that loses is merchant as well as he that gains.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian

The man who takes legal action often loses an ox to win a cat.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about action, man

He that washes an ass's head loses both his lye and his labour.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about heads

Water never loses its way.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about water

With seven nurses the child loses its eye.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about children

A tale never loses in the telling.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about fairy tales