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No time to waste like the present.

Proverbs and old sayings English about present, time

Sorrow remembered sweetens present joy.

Proverbs and old sayings English about present, joy, sadness

The golden age never was the present age.

Proverbs and old sayings English about age, olderness, present

He who praises the past blames the present.

Proverbs and old sayings Finnish about present, past

Absent, none without blame; present, none without excuse.

Proverbs and old sayings French about absent, present

I give a present to the mother but I think of the daughter.

Proverbs and old sayings German about present, mother

Affairs sleep soundly when fortune is present.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek about present, wealth, sleep

A gift with a kind countenance is a double present.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about present, gifts

Who takes a lion at a distance fears a mole present.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about present

He who gives a monkey as a present doesn't keep hold of its tail.

Proverbs and old sayings about present

The past is the future of the present.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about present, future, past

Children yoke parents to the past, present and future.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about parents, present, future, past, children

We judge of the present from the past.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about present, past, judges

Ever receive a present with approbation.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about present

God will be present, whether asked or not.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about present, god

The remembrance of past pleasures adds to present sorrows.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about present, past

The crow is a pretty bird when the jackdaw is not present.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about present

We judge of the present from the past. [The boy and the wolf. ]

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about present, past, judges

The worst ache is the present ache.

Proverbs and old sayings Lebanese about present

One speaks badly of the absent but fears the present.

Proverbs and old sayings about absent, present