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He who waits till an opportunity occurs may wait for ever.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about chance

Do not lengthen the quarrel while there is an opportunity of escaping.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about chance

The opportunity makes the thief.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about chance, thieves

Never kiss an opportunity with a dirty mouth.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about kiss, chance

The opportunity that God sends does not wake up those that are asleep.

Proverbs and old sayings about chance, god

The threatener loses the opportunity of vengeance.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about chance

Four things come not back -- the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity.

Proverbs and old sayings Arab about chance, past, word, life, things

Life can never give security, it can only promise opportunity.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about security, promise, chance, life

The greater your troubles, the greater is your opportunity to show yourself a worthy person.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about chance, people

Four things come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about chance, past, word, life, things

If you curse your wife in the evening, you will sleep alone at night. A crisis is an opportunity riding the dangerous wind.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about chance, sleep, night, wife

Rice tastes good when properly cooked, and talking is good when the opportunity is ripe.

Proverbs and old sayings about talking, chance, good, good luck

Where there is no want of will, there will be no want of opportunity.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about chance

Men never moan over the opportunities lost to do good, only the opportunities to be bad.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek about chance, man, bad luck, bad, good, good luck

Hell is paved with good intentions, roofed in with lost opportunities.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about chance, hell, good, good luck

A man is not honest simply because he never had a chance to steal.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about chance, man

Romance/ without finance/ don't stand a chance.

Proverbs and old sayings about chance, americans

If you kill time, you'll bury opportunities.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about chance, time

A fool may chance to put something into a wise man's head.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about chance, heads, man

A good man never stays in the grave forever, he always has chance to come back.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about chance, good, good luck, man