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Lower your head modestly while passing, and you will harvest bananas.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about heads

Where there is a hippopotamus, be careful when passing with a pirogue.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

Youth is a kind of illness cured only by the passing years.

Proverbs and old sayings about youth

Listen to all, pluck a feather from every passing goose, but follow no one absolutely.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

Listen to all, plucking a feather from every passing goose, but, follow no one absolutely.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

Time is a river of passing events -- a rushing torrent.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek about events, time

Man is like a breath, his days like a passing shadow.

Proverbs and old sayings about shadow, day, man

Like the seaweed that clings to each other after each passing boat separates them, so too a family will come together with the passing of each crisis.

Proverbs and old sayings about family

The hour is passing.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

The passing hour is sometimes a mother, sometimes a stepmother.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about mother

If summer had a mother, she would weep at summer's passing.

Proverbs and old sayings Lebanese about mother

Little and lasting is better than much and passing.

Proverbs and old sayings Moroccan

All weather is passing.

Proverbs and old sayings Norwegian about weather

Maturity comes from wisdom not in the passing of years.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about wisdom

You cannot prevent the birds of sadness from passing over your head, but you can prevent them from nesting in your hair.

Proverbs and old sayings Swedish about sadness, heads

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

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

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

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about games, man

Never give up your own old mat for a better prayer mat which you see passing.

Proverbs and old sayings about old, olderness