Search in folklore: mourn

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Possessions dwindle: I mourn their loss. But I mourn the loss of time much more, for anyone can save his purse, but none can win back lost time.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about time

He who doesn't console the bereaved will never be mourned by others.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

What the wolf mourns is food for the fox.

Proverbs and old sayings about food

Nobody mourns an unnoticed death.

Proverbs and old sayings Burundi about death

People should be mourned at their birth, not at their death.

Proverbs and old sayings about death, people

Don't scoff at my mourning - mine is old and yours is recent.

Proverbs and old sayings about old, olderness

Never dress in mourning before the dead man is in his coffin.

Proverbs and old sayings about man

He who loves sorrow, will always find something to mourn over.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about sadness

He wears the mourning of his washerwoman.

Proverbs and old sayings French

The chickens don't mourn when the poulterer dies.

Proverbs and old sayings German

Weep for the mourners, not for the dead; they have gone to their rest, and we are left to lament.

Proverbs and old sayings

A guest mourner does not wail as though his heart is broken.

Proverbs and old sayings Igbo about heart

You must marry a widow while she is still mourning.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

Don't take seriously the cat who mourns for a mouse.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese

When the cat mourns for the mouse do not take her seriously.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese

When a bald man dies the mourners give him curly hair as a present.

Proverbs and old sayings about present, man

The owl is mourning, rain is coming.

Proverbs and old sayings about rain

A wolf's mourning is the fox's feast.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about feast

Where they is mourning someone has died.

Proverbs and old sayings

Borrowing is like a wedding, repaying is like mourning.

Proverbs and old sayings about marriage