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If you buy cheap meat, when it boils you smell what you have saved.

Proverbs and old sayings about commerce

Goha said to his son that he wont sleep beside him. Said: Saved us your farts.

Proverbs and old sayings about sleep

If youth knew what age would crave, it would both get and save.

Proverbs and old sayings British about youth, age, olderness

Beware of an oak, it draws the stroke; avoid an ash, it counts the flash; creep under the thorn, it can save you from harm.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

I will not bite any dog, says the shepherd's dog, for I must save my teeth for the wolf.

Proverbs and old sayings German

A person who misses a chance and the monkey who misses its branch can't be saved.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about chance, people

Sometimes you need to sacrifice your beard in order to save your head.

Proverbs and old sayings Iraqian about sacrifice, order, need, heads

When the ship has sunk everyone knows how she might have been saved.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

After the ship has sunk, everyone knows how she might have been saved.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

Destroying an Empire to win a war is no victory. And ending a battle to save an Empire is no defeat.

Proverbs and old sayings about defeat, victory, war

Possessions dwindle: I mourn their loss. But I mourn the loss of time much more, for anyone can save his purse, but none can win back lost time.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about time