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In thy home be joyous and generous to guests discreet shalt thou be in thy bearing.

Proverbs and old sayings about home

In sweet converse call the righteous to thy side, learn a healing song while thou livest.

Proverbs and old sayings about conversation

The foolish man lies awake all night Thinking of his many problems; When the morning comes he is worn out And his trouble is just as it was.

Proverbs and old sayings about problems, thinking, night, man

Thinking is the essence of wisdom.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about thinking, wisdom

If the Sultan demands five eggs, let his soldiers roast a thousand chickens.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian

Thinking well is wise; planning well, wiser; but doing well is the wisest and best of all.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about thinking

Thinking is not knowing.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about thinking

Thinking of where you are going, you forget whence you came.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about thinking

Thinking of where you are going, you forget from whence you came.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about thinking

A fool is happier thinking weel o' himself than a wise man is of others thinking weel o' him.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about thinking, man

When a musician hath forgotten his note, He makes as though a crumb stuck in his throat.

Proverbs and old sayings

When you work with anxiety during the day, you'll sit up at night with your thoughts.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about night, work, day

Speaking without thinking is shooting without taking aim.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about thinking

The busy man is troubled with but one devil, the idle man by a thousand.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about devil, man

Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married. Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. He that has no children brings them up well.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about present, war, advice, children

It is better to live for one day as a tiger than to live for a thousand years as a sheep.

Proverbs and old sayings Tibetan about day

He who talks without thinking dies without getting sick.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish about thinking

With gold I can buy things; with thinking I can understand things.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish about thinking, things, commerce

He who has no children has one sorrow, he who has children has a thousand sorrows.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish about children, sadness

When hitting the horn of a single cow, the horns of a thousand cows hurt.

Proverbs and old sayings