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Unless you know the road you've come down, you can not know where you are going.

Proverbs and old sayings Zulu

Getting only a beautiful woman is like planting a vine on the roadside everyone feeds on it.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about woman

It is a man's challenge to go as far as he can on the right road.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about rightness, americans, man

Choose your neighbor before your house and your companion before the road.

Proverbs and old sayings about home, house

The man who has no impurity will be helped even by peels he sees on the road.

Proverbs and old sayings about man

The person who recognizes his major mistakes is on the road to wisdom.

Proverbs and old sayings Columbian about wisdom, people

There are three bad neighbours: great rivers, great lords, and great roads.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about bad luck, bad

What is the use of running when we are not on the right road?

Proverbs and old sayings German about use, rightness

The pig in the sty doesn't know the pig going along the road.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

The hungry belly and the full belly do not walk the same road.

Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican

If you want to know who your friends are, lie by the roadside and pretend to be drunk.

Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican about lie

The person to whom things are brought does not know the length of the road.

Proverbs and old sayings about people, things

There never was a five-pound note but there was a ten-pound road for it.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

He who has a good looking wife, a castle on the river, or a vineyard on the roadside is never without war.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about war, wife, good, good luck

He who has a handsome wife, a castle on the frontier, or a vineyard on the roadside, is never without war.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about war, wife

A virgin may travel alone at midnight and be safe, and a purse of gold dropped in the road at midday will never be stolen.

Proverbs and old sayings Syrian

From success to failure is one step; from failure to success is a long road.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about failure