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It's better to return from the centre of the ford than drown in the flood.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

Who gives, teaches a return.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

Pride went out on horseback, and returned on foot.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about proudness

He who does many bad deeds can expect a big one in return.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about deeds, bad luck, bad

Curses are like processions: they return to whence they set out.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

Many return from the war who cannot give an account of the battle.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about war

He ought not to complain of the sea who returns to it a second time.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about time

Overturned water doesn't return to the tray.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about water

Fallen blossom doesn't return to the branch.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese

A fallen blossom never returns to the branch.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese

The strong will protect the weak and, in return, the weak will serve the strong.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese

Fallen blossoms do not return to branches; a broken mirror does not again reflect.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese

To go does not prevent a man from returning.

Proverbs and old sayings about man

What is loaned goes away smiling but returns weeping.

Proverbs and old sayings

Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.

Proverbs and old sayings

That which I receive, that I return.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

It is inexcusable to have remained long away, and return empty-handed.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

When you return from a trip, bring back something for your family -- even if it is only a stone.

Proverbs and old sayings Lebanese about family

Though a tree grows so high, the falling leaves return to the root.

Proverbs and old sayings Malaysian