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Drinking with a bosom friend, a thousand shots are too few; Talking with a disagreeable person, half a sentence is too many.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about drinking, talking, people

A thousand cups of wine do not suffice when true friends meet, but half a sentence is too much when there is no meeting of minds.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about wine

To make good conversation there are a thousand subjects, but there are still those who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about conversation, talking, good, good luck

Although there exist many thousands of subjects for elegant conversation, there are persons who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about people, conversation, talking

The slanderer kills a thousand times; the assassin but once.

Proverbs and old sayings

One picture is worth ten thousand words.

Proverbs and old sayings English

A picture is worth a thousand words, and yet picture books are for infants.

Proverbs and old sayings English about books

For one pleasure a thousand pains.

Proverbs and old sayings French about pleasure

A good trade will carry farther than a thousand florins.

Proverbs and old sayings German about commerce, good, good luck

The praise of a thousand jesters counts for nothing against the reprimand of one wise man.

Proverbs and old sayings German about clowns, praise, nothing, man

One lie ruins a thousand truths.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about lie

A thousand people cannot undress a naked person.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek about people

Against a thousand crows one stone is enough.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

He is bad that will not take advice, but he is a thousand times worse that takes every advice.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about advice, bad luck, bad

Who errs in the tens errs in the thousands.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

Conscience is as good as a thousand witnesses.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about conscience, good, good luck

A thousand probabilities do not make one truth.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about truth

In a thousand pounds of law there is not one ounce of love.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about law, love

An evil act runs a thousand miles.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese

The go-between wears out a thousand sandals.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese