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If there is a lid that doesn't fit, then there is a lid that does. To a person that does not wander, there is not enlightenment. Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about wanderer, fall, people

Who has not had a taste longs to do so, but for whom has tasted then the longing is a hundred times more.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about longing

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

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

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

Proverbs and old sayings about mother, love