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If you stash, you have something to withdraw.

Proverbs and old sayings

When something has been denied of you, you can still do it once.

Proverbs and old sayings Finnish

If you reach for something that is far too good for you, it is not going to end well.

Proverbs and old sayings Finnish about end, good, good luck

No one can be an expected to be an expert at something before they have got the chance to practice it.

Proverbs and old sayings Finnish about chance

When the woman wants something God quakes.

Proverbs and old sayings French about woman, god

To want to forget something is to remember it.

Proverbs and old sayings French

Nothing is done while something remains undone.

Proverbs and old sayings French about nothing

Lazy people are always eager to be doing something.

Proverbs and old sayings French about people

If you lend something you may lose it, but not if you give it.

Proverbs and old sayings French

Put something sweet in his mouth and send good news to the heart.

Proverbs and old sayings French about heart, good, good luck

A fine girl and a tattered gown always find something to hook the them.

Proverbs and old sayings French

It is not enough to have cabbage, one must have something to grease it.

Proverbs and old sayings French

There is something in the misfortune of our best friends which does not displease us.

Proverbs and old sayings French

When a cow is lost it is something to recover its tail, were it only to make a handle for one's door.

Proverbs and old sayings French

Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.

Proverbs and old sayings French about integrity, union, self-control, love

If you give a man nuts then give him something to crack them with.

Proverbs and old sayings Georgian about man

Better something than nothing at all.

Proverbs and old sayings German about nothing

Nothing so bad as not to be good for something.

Proverbs and old sayings German about nothing, bad luck, bad, good, good luck

Be silent, or say something better than silence.

Proverbs and old sayings German about silence

It is more painful to do nothing than something.

Proverbs and old sayings German about nothing