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If you see your friend's ox or sheep straying, don't look the other way; return them to your friend.

Proverbs and old sayings

If a stone was thrown at you, throw back some bread in return.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

A bird that you set free may be caught again, but a word that escapes your lips will not return.

Proverbs and old sayings Jewish about word

Neither shall the wave, which has passed on, ever be recalled; nor can the hour, which has once fled by, return again.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

Though a tree grows ever so high, the falling leaves return to its roots.

Proverbs and old sayings Guatemalan

Who goes to the fair without money, goes with one problem and returns with three.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about money

Whoever goes to Palermo and doesn't see Monreale, goes there a jackass and returns a fool.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

When a good offer comes for your daughter, don't wait till her father returns from market.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about good, good luck

We are all flesh and blood of the earth and so will return to the ground as rotten maggot encrusted relics.

Proverbs and old sayings about blood, earth