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If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he does not know how wide it is, he will jump, and six times out of ten he will make it.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian

Fortune and olives are alike: sometimes a man has an abundance and other times not any.

Proverbs and old sayings Peruvian about wealth, man

Death makes us equal in the grave but not in eternity.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about eternity, death

Eternity makes room for a salty cucumber.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about eternity

If you go to war pray once; if you go on a sea journey pray twice; but pray three times when you are going to be married.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about pray, war

The servant wench that has a mother in town swoons seven times a day.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about city, mother, day

A judge knows nothing unless it has been explained to him three times.

Proverbs and old sayings about judges, nothing

One night with an ugly woman and one day in the mountains both are like an eternity.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish about eternity, night, woman, day

Find as much love as was given by your father and mother many times.

Proverbs and old sayings about mother, love