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Death is not found behind mountains but right behind our shoulders.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about rightness, death

When there's love, mountains seem like plains.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about love

Wives from the mountains and husbands from the cities.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

A doorstep is the highest of all mountains.

Proverbs and old sayings Slovenian

Faith can move mountains.

Proverbs and old sayings Swedish about faith

When sleeping women wake, mountains move.

Proverbs and old sayings Tahitian

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverbs and old sayings

One night with an ugly woman and one day in the mountains both are like an eternity.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish about eternity, night, woman, day

A rich man will get his carriage over the mountains, a poor man will lose his way on a level plain.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish about wealth, man

One decade is long enough to change the looks of mountains and rivers.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about change

Small ills are the fountains of most of our groans. Men trip not on mountains, they stumble on stones.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about man

If you are poor, though you dwell in the busy marketplace, no one will inquire about you; if you are rich, though you dwell in the heart of the mountains, you will have distant relatives.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about wealth, heart

Too many boatmen will run the boat up to the top of the mountains.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese

I have been to the end of the earth. I have been to the end of the water. I have been to the end of the sky. I have been to the end of the mountains. I have found none that are not my friends.

Proverbs and old sayings about end, earth, sky, water, americans

For our sins God has created three enemies for us: mice in the house, the fox in the mountains, and a priest in our village.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about sin, enemies, home, house, god, americans