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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows: he breathes but does not live.
Proverbs and old sayings about generosity, life, day
Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
Proverbs and old sayings French about secret
Beautiful things are never as beautiful as those that are pleasing.
Proverbs and old sayings about things
Set out wisely at first; custom will make every virtue more easy and pleasant to you than any vice can be.
Proverbs and old sayings English about vice, virtue
He who holds the handle of the frying-pan turns it as he pleases.
Proverbs and old sayings French
If the weather is fine, put on you cloak; if it rains, do as you please.
Proverbs and old sayings French about weather
People will ignore their misfortunes and their interests when they are in competition with their pleasures.
Proverbs and old sayings French about competition, people
Little drops of water, little grains of sand, make the mighty ocean and the pleasant land.
Proverbs and old sayings German about water
Who is blind? He who can see no other world. Who is dumb? He who can say nothing pleasant about his lot. Who is poor? He who is troubled with too many desires. Who is rich? He who is happy with his lot.
Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about happiness, blind, wealth, world, nothing
He gives well and bountifully who accompanies the gift with a pleasing look.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about gifts
Make the night night, and the day day, and you will live pleasantly.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about night, day
Children pick up words, as pigeons peas, And utter them again as God shall please.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about children, god
As long as a child does not cry, it does not matter what pleases it.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian about children
When we ask a favour, we say, Madam; when we obtain it, what we please.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish
