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There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Proverbs and old sayings about help, people, things

If everyone helps to hold up the sky, then one person does not become tired.

Proverbs and old sayings about sky, people

It is better to see for oneself than to be informed by a third person.

Proverbs and old sayings about people

Every person admires his own character.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish about character, people

It matters less to a person where they are born than where they can live.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish about people

Explaining something to an ignorant person is harder than making a camel jump over a ditch.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish about people

A good person has many friends, a good horse has many masters.

Proverbs and old sayings about people, good, good luck

The person who has not traveled widely thinks his or her mother is the best cook.

Proverbs and old sayings Ugandan about mother, people

When eating a fruit, think of the person who planted the tree.

Proverbs and old sayings Vietnamese about people

When eating the fruit, think of the person who planted the tree.

Proverbs and old sayings Vietnamese about people

Bakuba is far away, no person ever reached it.

Proverbs and old sayings Zulu about people

A person who will not take advice gets knowledge when trouble overtakes him.

Proverbs and old sayings Zulu about knowledge, advice, people

If we blink the eyes in order not to see a wicked person, how shall we be able to see a good person?

Proverbs and old sayings Zulu about order, people, eyes, good, good luck

A sick person is a prisoner.

Proverbs and old sayings Yemenite about people

A person should live if only for curiosity's sake.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about curiosity, people

A person should stay alive, if only out of curiosity.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about curiosity, people

A person should want to live, if only out of curiosity.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about curiosity, people

A person can study for seventy years and at the end die a fool.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about end, people

A person's worst enemy can't wish on him what he can think up himself.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about wish, enemies, people

If a person is fated to drown, he'll lose his life even in a teaspoon of water.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about people, life, water