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Lower your voice and strengthen your argument.

Proverbs and old sayings Lebanese about voice

Lower your head modestly while passing, and you will harvest bananas.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about heads, contentment

It's not a matter of upper and lower class but of being up a while and down a while.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about being

What lowers itself is ready to fall.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about fall

The higher the mountain the lower the vale, the taller the tree the harder the fall.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about fall

The higher the mountain the lower the valley, the taller the tree the harder the fall.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about fall

The higher flood hath always the lower ebb.

Proverbs and old sayings German

Blaw the wind ne'er so fast, it will lower at last.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about fasting

It is not a matter of upper and lower class but of ups and downs.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

The taller the bamboo grows, the lower it bends.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese

He that lies upon the ground can fall no lower.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about fall

Always ask a higher price, because you can always lower it.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about contentment

When a man raises his voice at home, know that he started lowering if elsewhere.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about voice, home, man

When you lift your hand to strike, you are three-tenths lower than your opponent.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about contentment