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Better preventing than fixing.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese

It's best to prevent than to have to remedy.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese

Better to prevent than regret.

Proverbs and old sayings about regret

Good watch prevents harm.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about good, good luck

Your ancestor's glory should not prevent you from winning your own.

Proverbs and old sayings Serbian about ancestors, glory

The glory of ancestors should not prevent a man winning glory for himself.

Proverbs and old sayings Serbian about glory, ancestors, man

The glory of ancestors should not prevent a man from winning glory for himself.

Proverbs and old sayings Serbian about glory, ancestors, man

It is not in the pilot's power to prevent the wind from blowing.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about power

Happy is he whose own faults prevent him from castigating the faults of others.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish about happiness

They prevent us from getting red clay from the pit, and they do not use it.

Proverbs and old sayings Zulu about use

If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.

Proverbs and old sayings Icelandic about celebrity, stars, tears, sun, life

He that gives time to resolve, gives time to deny, and warning to prevent.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about time

He who is present at a wrongdoing and does not lift a hand to prevent it is guilty as the wrongdoers.

Proverbs and old sayings Omaha about present