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Don't be ever in court or a castle without a woman to make your excuse.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about woman

If there is bitterness in the heart, sugar in the mouth won't make life sweeter.

Proverbs and old sayings about life, heart

Greater fools than they of Zago, who dunged the steeple to make it grow.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

Agree between yourselves (as to the time), quoth Arlotto, and I will make it rain.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about rain, time

The devil was good looking at eighteen, and course tea makes a bitter first cup.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about bitter, devil, good, good luck

If the rich could hire the poor to die for them, the poor would make a very nice living.

Proverbs and old sayings Jewish about wealth

If the rich could hire someone else to die for them, the poor would make a wonderful living.

Proverbs and old sayings Jewish about wealth

A leader is judged not by the length of his reign but by the decisions he makes.

Proverbs and old sayings

When you've heard it you must see it; when you've seen it make a judgement with your heart.

Proverbs and old sayings about heart

Men learn oratory by practice. [Practice in speaking makes us eloquent. ]

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about oratory, man

Pursue that course which offers most advantages, habit will soon make it agreeable and easy.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about habits

What is not understood [explained] by what is less understood. [To make confusion still more confounded. ]

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about confusion

A man who lets his problems get the better of him is like a man who divorces his wife the first time she makes him angry.

Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about problems, wife, time, man

Just as a bamboo cane forms a round jet of water, so taking counsel together makes men of one mind.

Proverbs and old sayings Guatemalan about moral, mind, man, water

Greed keeps men forever poor, even the abundance of this world will not make them rich.

Proverbs and old sayings Mongolian about greed, wealth, world, man

Not to know the good we have Till time has stolen the cherish'd gift away, Is cause of half the misery that we feel, And makes the world the wilderness it is.

Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian about gifts, world, time, good, good luck

If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he does not know how wide it is, he will jump, and six times out of ten he will make it.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian

Eat in Poland, drink in Hungary, sleep in Germany, and make love in Italy.

Proverbs and old sayings Polish about sleep, drinking, love

What men usually ask for when they pray to God is, that two and two may not make four.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about pray, man, god

Yesterday is a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore to this day.

Proverbs and old sayings Sanskrit about vision, dream, happiness, hope, day