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Taking advantage of a murky/confusing situation.

Proverbs and old sayings

Taking aim for too long can ruin your eyes.

Proverbs and old sayings about eyes

Taking water from the same well doesn't make all the wives' gravy taste good.

Proverbs and old sayings about water, good, good luck

Taking the first step with the good thought, the second with the good word, and the third with the good deed, I enter paradise.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about paradise, thinking, good, good luck, word

Taking out without putting in, soon comes to the bottom.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese

Taking a bite of the bread restores your appetite.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

Taking out and not putting in soon reaches the bottom.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains

Proverbs and old sayings British about infinite, genius, old, olderness

If you're not living on the edge... you're taking up too much room.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment

He who deliberates fully before taking a step will spend his entire life on one leg.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about life

Better to sit next to someone taking a shit rather than someone carving stone.

Proverbs and old sayings

Peter, I am taking a ride, said the goose, when the fox was running into the wood with her.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

If it is worth taking, it is worth asking for.

Proverbs and old sayings

One first drives off the fox, before taking the chickens home and blaming them for straying.

Proverbs and old sayings Igbo about home

Change seeds taking them from different calabashes.

Proverbs and old sayings about change

Danger can never by overcome without taking risks.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about danger

After taking ninety-nine years to climb a stairway, the tortoise falls and says there is a curse on haste.

Proverbs and old sayings Maltese

The person taking legal action often gives up an ox to win a cat.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about action, people

Always taking Out of the meal-tub, and never putting in, soon comes to the bottom.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian

A taking hand will never want.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish