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In his decision the judge with seven reasons gives only one in court.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about judges

We must have reasons for speech but we need none for silence.

Proverbs and old sayings French about silence, need

What is right for the one is reasonable for the other.

Proverbs and old sayings German about rightness

A tear bedews my Delia's eye, From morn till dewy eve; But if you ask the reason why, She can't tell, I believe.

Proverbs and old sayings German about reason

The lizard says that he knows the condition of his underbelly. ?The reason he has it pressed against the ground.

Proverbs and old sayings Igbo about reason

It is easier to make a camel jump a ditch than to make a fool listen to reason.

Proverbs and old sayings about reason

All flute-players are mad; when once they begin to blow, away goes reason.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about reason

A lying tongue had bereft him of life, and all without reason of right.

Proverbs and old sayings about lie, reason, rightness, life

The wine-skin has its reasons for smelling of pitch.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about wine

The reasons of the poor weigh not.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian

Some people may have reasons unknown to you for doing certain things.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about things, people

Words are for reasoning.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

The one chased away with a club comes back, but the one chased away with reason does not.

Proverbs and old sayings about reason

Our passions are the winds that propel our vessel. Our reason is the pilot that steers her. Without winds the vessel would not move and without a pilot she would be lost.

Proverbs and old sayings about reason

Wisdom is what makes a poor man a king, a weak person powerful, a good generation of a bad one, a foolish man reasonable.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about wisdom, people, bad luck, man, bad, good, good luck

People sometimes do all the wrong things for all the right reasons.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about bad, rightness, things, people