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Fear not a jest. If one throws salt at you, you will not be harmed unless you have sore places.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about fear

In the great sea fish is always to be caught. [There is a greater chance for enterprise in a large place. ]

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about chance

The dreaming man makes excuses for his inaction and places a fools cap on his head.

Proverbs and old sayings Moroccan about heads, man

Without other people's companionship, even paradise would be an unlikable place.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about paradise, people

Like the cat in the tree, getting caught up in the chase can leave us in an awkward place.

Proverbs and old sayings Rosicrucian

Better a dove on the plate than a woodgrouse in the mating place.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian

As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far place.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about soul, good, good luck

A person once wud, or deranged, is always suspected of being so, in the event of anything strange taking place.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about events, being, people

At Caltagirone a hairy conscience and a crown with fifteen places.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about conscience

Who fails to listen to his elders, will hang his knapsack in the wrong place.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about bad

The quail waits for the stick; the idle loiterer about a place waits for a kick from an old boot.

Proverbs and old sayings about old, olderness

If you go away, you can't expect people to keep your place for you.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about people

They are people of experience who do not sleep at a strange place.

Proverbs and old sayings Zulu about experience, sleep, people