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Mere life is not a victory, mere death is not a defeat.

Proverbs and old sayings about defeat, victory, death, life

Mere words do not feed the friars.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

Mere intentions are not to be esteemed as actions.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

Never assent merely to please.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans

A mere friend will agree with you, but a real friend will argue.

Proverbs and old sayings about real estate

A dream that lasts merely a millet soup's cooking time.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about dream, time

Words are mere bubbles of water, but deeds are drops of gold.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about deeds, water

Some work, others merely daydream.

Proverbs and old sayings about work

The bleating of the lamb merely arouses the tiger.

Proverbs and old sayings French

Nothing is more ridiculous or troublesome than mere ceremony.

Proverbs and old sayings French about nothing

It's not that age brings childhood back again, Age merely shows what children we remain.

Proverbs and old sayings German about childhood, age, olderness, children

If deeds are wanting, all words appear mere vanity and emptiness.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek about proudness, vanity, deeds

Better the certainty of the straddle than the mere loan of a saddle.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

Imagination gallops, judgment merely walks.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about imagination, judgment

Treat everything of this world as mere vanity.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about proudness, vanity, world

Negation proves nothing. [Mere opposition to a theory does not commit you to anything. ]

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about nothing

A farmer does not conclude by the mere look of it that a corn is unripe; he tears it open for examination.

Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian about tears

Do not do strange acts merely for the sake of astonishing your friends.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

One's foul smelling does not sicken one self but merely disguts one.

Proverbs and old sayings about self-control

Words are mere bubbles of water; deeds are drops of gold.

Proverbs and old sayings Tibetan about deeds, water