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A soft answer turns away anger.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about anger

A soft dropping April brings milk to cows and sheep.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

Don't be hard and don't be soft and don't desert your friend for your own share.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

Go softly at bad bits of road.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about bad luck, bad

Hidden virtues ring like a soft bell.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese

Time softens animosity.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about time

A soft-spoken compliment is honied poison.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

The force of anger is broken by a soft answer.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about force, police, anger

A soft answer bids a Furioso to put up his sword.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

Honey-tongued, soft spoken, malicious, and unprincipled in conduct.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about conduct

Let your love be like the misty rain, coming softly, but flooding the river.

Proverbs and old sayings Liberian about rain, love

It is the softness of the lime that is fatal to the bird.

Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy

Do not waste your time looking for soft ground to drive your spade in.

Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about time

Let your love be like drizzle: it comes softly, but still swells the river.

Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about love

Let your love be like the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river.

Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about love

Hot broth softens hard bread.

Proverbs and old sayings

Old oxen like soft grass.

Proverbs and old sayings about old, olderness

Let him speak soft words and offer wealth who longs for a woman's love.

Proverbs and old sayings about wealth, woman, love

Be as hard as the world requires you to be, and as soft as the world allows you to be.

Proverbs and old sayings about world

Spinner, spin softly, you disturb me; I am praying.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese