Search in folklore: twenty

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Twenty years a child twenty years running wild twenty years a mature man-and after that, praying.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about children, man

Hindsight is always twenty-twenty

Proverbs and old sayings British about old, olderness

A child and a fool imagine twenty shillings and twenty years can never be spent.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about children, americans

He who dies not in his twenty-third year, drowns not in his twenty-fourth, and is not slain in his twenty-fifth, may boast of good days.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about day, good, good luck

There are twenty-five uncaught sparrows for a penny.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan

There are only twenty-four hours in a day.

Proverbs and old sayings British about day

What is an expert? Someone who is twenty miles from home.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about home, americans

A spared body only goes twenty-four hours further that another.

Proverbs and old sayings Bengali about body

One acre of performance, is worth twenty of the land of promise.

Proverbs and old sayings British about promise

One of them is nineteen, the other is one less than twenty.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

A Kerry shower is of twenty-four hours.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

Better give a penny than lend twenty.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

Better give a penny then lend twenty.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

A volunteer is worth twenty pressed men.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about man

He that at twenty is not, at thirty knows not, and at forty has not, will never be, nor ever know, nor ever have.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

A wretched year has twenty-four months.

Proverbs and old sayings Lebanese

It is easier to fill twenty bellies than one pair of eyes.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about eyes

Among twenty four fools not ane wise man.

Proverbs and old sayings about man

Ane may lead a Horse to the water, but four and twenty cannot gar him drink.

Proverbs and old sayings about drinking, water

In twenty-four hours, a house can become a patriarch.

Proverbs and old sayings about home, house