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You are not being honest if you burn your tongue and don't tell everyone else that the soup is hot.

Proverbs and old sayings Serbian about being

Better to be born a limpet in the sea, than a load bearing donkey.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

It is written in sacred scripture: where grass is growing you don't need fertilizer.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about need

It's a great advantage to love someone in your neighborhood: you see each other often and you don't have to travel.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about love

When you're invited, eat heartily, because if they like you they'll laugh, and if they don't like you they'll feel the pangs of death.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about death

Conscience is what tells you not to do what you have just done.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about conscience

The winter is gone, the spring is come, a fly for those who us good have done.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about spring, good, good luck

Love is like a mousetrap: you go in when you want, but you don't get out when you like.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about love

To friend and foe alike I tell them how bad she is, so that I don't have to share her with anyone.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about bad luck, bad

It's good to learn from the errors of others, since we don't have time to carry out all of them ourselves.

Proverbs and old sayings Swedish about error, time, good, good luck

It's better to deal with the devil we know than the devil we don't know.

Proverbs and old sayings Syrian about devil

Sow good and you'll reap good; sow bad and you'll reap bad. You don't have to cut down a tree to get its fruit.

Proverbs and old sayings Tibetan about bad luck, bad, good, good luck

If the young knew and the old could, there is nothing that couldn't be done.

Proverbs and old sayings about nothing, old, olderness

One lives in the world's memory only by what they have done in the world's behalf.

Proverbs and old sayings about memory, world

For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.

Proverbs and old sayings

Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverbs and old sayings about people, mind, old, olderness

When God wants to please a poor man, He lets him lose his donkey and then helps him find it again.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish about god, man

The first drink makes you a frisky gazelle, the second an impetuous zebra, the third a roaring lion, and with the fourth you become a silly donkey.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish about drinking

Lesson: Don't lose your pen

1. Lost Your Pen = No Pen
2. No Pen = No Notes
3. No Notes = No Study
4. No Study = Fail
5. Fail = No Diploma
6. No Diploma = No Work
7. No Work = No Money
8. No Money = No Food
9. No Food = You Get Skinny
10. Skinny = Then You Get Ugly...

Proverbs and old sayings American about teaching, depression, marriage, food, children, work, money, death

The brain,
If you use it, you see the world as it is.
If you don't use it, you see the world as others tell you it is.

Proverbs and old sayings Romanian about mind, use, brain, world