Search in folklore: loss

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After one loss come many.

Proverbs and old sayings French

Loaning money causes loss of memory.

Proverbs and old sayings French about loaning, memory, money

When glory comes, loss of memory follows.

Proverbs and old sayings French about memory, glory

To wash an ass's head is but loss of time and soap.

Proverbs and old sayings French about heads, time

To wash an ass's head is but loss of time and soap. (To reprove a fool is but lost labour. )

Proverbs and old sayings French about heads, time

Women are never at a loss for words.

Proverbs and old sayings German

When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek

Death is never at a loss for occasions.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek about death

A clever master turns even a loss into a gain.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian about intelligence

There is no loss, which is not a gain for somebody.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

Two things that go for loss-turf on a mountain and the wisdom of a poor man.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about wisdom, things, man

Gifts are often losses.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about gifts

There's no great loss without some gain.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

A hundred years cannot repair a moment's loss of honour.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about moment, honour

One coin saved, a hundred losses.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese

Where profit is, loss is hiding nearby.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese

An evil gain is equal to a loss.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

We learn the value of things more in their loss than in their enjoyment.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about joy, value, things

You may light another's candle with your own without loss.

Proverbs and old sayings about light

Nae great loss but there's some sma' profit.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish