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Moderate measures succeed best.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

By speedy, not by slow measures.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

Use not coercive measures against those in authority.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about authority, use

A tree is best measured when it's down.

Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian

He that measures oil shall anoint his fingers.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian

Eat and drink measurely, and defie the mediciners.

Proverbs and old sayings about drinking

If the olive trees blossom in April, you'll have enough to collect them with barrels; if they bud in May, you'll have enough to fill a small measure; but if as late as June, you'll only be collecting handfuls.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about measure

He who measures oil greases his hands.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

Eat and drink measurely, and defy the mediciners.

Proverbs and old sayings about drinking

People can no more be judged by their looks than the sea can be measured in bushels.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about people

A person cannot be judged by his appearance in the same token as the sea cannot be measured with a bucket.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about people

Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant; but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about man

Every peasant is proud of the pond in his village because from it he measures the sea.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about peasantry, proudness