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Eat bread at pleasure, drink wine by measure.

Proverbs and old sayings French about measure, pleasure, drinking, wine

Every one takes his pleasure where he finds it.

Proverbs and old sayings French about pleasure

He that would go to sea for pleasure would go to hell for a pastime.

Proverbs and old sayings French about pleasure, hell

In hawks, hounds, arms, and love, for one pleasure a thousand pains.

Proverbs and old sayings French about pleasure, love

The pleasure of love lasts but a moment, The pain of love lasts a lifetime.

Proverbs and old sayings French about moment, pleasure, pain, love

Pigeons are taken when crows fly at pleasure.

Proverbs and old sayings German about pleasure

With great pleasure, says the boor, when he must.

Proverbs and old sayings German about pleasure

Many children, and little bread, is a painful pleasure.

Proverbs and old sayings German about pleasure, children

Take a young woman for the pleasure of possessing her until she is old.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek about pleasure, woman, old, olderness

If you are up to your knees in pleasure, then you are up to your waist in grief.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about sadness, pleasure

A fool finds no pleasure in understanding but delights in airing his own opinions.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about pleasure

A fool finds pleasure in evil conduct, but a man of understanding delights in wisdom.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about conduct, pleasure, wisdom, man

Even thinking about sexual pleasure has its roots in greed.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about sex, greed, thinking, pleasure

The taste of cold water after drinking, is a pleasure that the teetotaler will never know.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about drinking, pleasure, water

Don't make a toil of pleasure.

Proverbs and old sayings Jewish about pleasure

Pain past is pleasure.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about pleasure, past, pain

Sorrow follows pleasure.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about pleasure, sadness

Pain mingles with pleasure.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about pleasure, pain

The labour is in itself a pleasure.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about pleasure

Sorrow dwells on the confines of pleasure.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about pleasure, sadness