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People are enemies of that which they don't know.

Proverbs and old sayings about enemies, people

People get to know one another when traveling.

Proverbs and old sayings Bantu about people

People give, but don't be in a hurry to take.

Proverbs and old sayings Cambodian about people

People can be done without but a lot of us need a friend.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about need, people

People die voluntarily when it becomes impossible to live.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about impossible, people

People fool themselves. They pray for a long life but fear old age.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about pray, olderness, age, fear, life, people, old

People live like birds in the woods: When the time comes, each must take flight.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about flight, people, time

People can no more be judged by their looks than the sea can be measured in bushels.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about people

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

Proverbs and old sayings about death, people

People must eat, even were every tree a gallows.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about people

People with wax heads shouldn't walk in the sun.

Proverbs and old sayings English about heads, sun, people

People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

Proverbs and old sayings English about people

People lend only to the rich.

Proverbs and old sayings French about wealth, people

People make the bells say what they please.

Proverbs and old sayings French about people

People take more pains to be damned than to be saved.

Proverbs and old sayings French about people

People count the faults of those who keep them waiting.

Proverbs and old sayings French about people

People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverbs and old sayings French about people

People who have bread to eat do not appreciate the severity of a famine.

Proverbs and old sayings French about people

People will ignore their misfortunes and their interests when they are in competition with their pleasures.

Proverbs and old sayings French about competition, people

People often change and seldom for the better.

Proverbs and old sayings German about change, people