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People are consumed by evil because of keeping close to it, but not because of keeping away from it.

Proverbs and old sayings about people

People are like eels in the water, they wander this way and that.

Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about wanderer, people, water

People are like plants in the wind: they bow down and rise up again.

Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about people

People sometimes do all the wrong things for all the right reasons.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about bad, rightness, things, people

People helping one another can bring an elephant into the house.

Proverbs and old sayings Rwandan about home, house, people

People are man's medicine.

Proverbs and old sayings about medicine, people, man

People with money and friends don't esteem justice.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about justice, money, people

People are the architects of their own fortune.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about wealth, people

People who have little to do are excessive talkers.

Proverbs and old sayings about people

People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised.

Proverbs and old sayings about purpose, being, people

People live with their own idiosyncrasies and die of their own illnesses.

Proverbs and old sayings Vietnamese about people

People aren't good unless others are made better by them.

Proverbs and old sayings Welsh about people, good, good luck

People who do not mend things first will never produce something.

Proverbs and old sayings about things, people

If rich people could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make a wonderful living.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about people, wealth

All poor people ain't black/ and all black people ain't poor.

Proverbs and old sayings about magic, people, americans

Use people who have something to gain, not people with nothing to lose.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about people, use, nothing

A redeemer of people is a walker with people.

Proverbs and old sayings Bantu about people

Many people count other people's faults and ignore their own.

Proverbs and old sayings about people

Young people don't know what age is, and old people forget what youth was.

Proverbs and old sayings English about people, olderness, youth, age, old

Young people tell what they are doing, old people what they have done and fools what they wish to do.

Proverbs and old sayings French about wish, people, old, olderness