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We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love... and then we return home.

Proverbs and old sayings Australian about purpose, home, time, love

Always stamp your hunting nets where the animal is going to pass.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

Those who do not forgive break the bridge on which they have to pass.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

One can see it but must not say, when the master of a house passes excreta in a pot.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about home, house

However long the dry season takes a seasonal river will never forget where it used to pass.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about season

If you close your eyes because of the bad people around you, you will not see the good people passing by.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about people, eyes, bad luck, bad, good, good luck

The most useful holy war is the one fought against your own passions.

Proverbs and old sayings about war

O! Count the waves of the sea Goha. Goha said the comings are more than what passed.

Proverbs and old sayings

The dowry that a woman brings is like a bell; every time she passes by she hits you with the clapper.

Proverbs and old sayings Armenian about woman, time

If you stay long enough in one place the whole world passes you by.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about world

A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every passerby leaves a mark.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about children, life

A man of high principles is someone who can watch a chess game without passing comment.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about games, man

Life is just as long as the time it takes for someone to pass by a window.

Proverbs and old sayings about life, time

It is not the greatest beauties that inspire the most profound passion.

Proverbs and old sayings French

Better one good thing that is, rather than two good things that were, or three good things that might never come to pass.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about things, good, good luck

Anyone who is satisfied to stand still should not complain when others pass him.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

The winds may fell the massive oak, but bamboo, bent even to the ground, will spring upright after the passage of the storm.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about spring