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He who does not collect in summer, will heat little in winter.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

If he is thrown out through the door, he enters through the window.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

Let the kite hawk have a perch, and let the eagle also have a perch. Whichever begrudges the other the right to perch, may he break a wing.

Proverbs and old sayings Igbo about rightness

A man with a loud laugh makes truth itself seem folly, Truth is great and will win out.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about truth, man

Possessions dwindle: I mourn their loss. But I mourn the loss of time much more, for anyone can save his purse, but none can win back lost time.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about time

If we don't fight we remain equals, if we do fight then one of us wins.

Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about fight

When hunger comes through the door, love jumps out the window.

Proverbs and old sayings Mexican about hunger, love

Two heads cut off and thrown high into the tree have only the winds with which to scheme..

Proverbs and old sayings about heads

The rich man gets his ice in the summer and the poor man gets his in the winter.

Proverbs and old sayings Polish about wealth, man

When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out of the window.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about poverty, love

The person taking legal action often gives up an ox to win a cat.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about action, people

The charitable give out at the door, and God puts in at the window.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about god

I'll come again, said the woman who got caught in wing of the windmill.

Proverbs and old sayings about woman

God keep ill gear out o' my hands; for if my hand ance get it, my heart winna part wi't, sae prayed the gude earl of eglinton.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about heart, god

When falkland hill puts on his cap, the howe o' fife will get a drap, and when the bishop draws his cowl, look out for wind and weather fowl.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about weather

The glory of ancestors should not prevent a man from winning glory for himself.

Proverbs and old sayings Serbian about glory, ancestors, man

By Saint Candelora day if it's not snowing or raining, winter is over.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about saints, day

Better to be shot with a crossbow than rejected by a window slammed shut.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

Empty stalks from the Sirocco and full spikes of wheat with the North Wind.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

The promises of love and the smoke of a chimney, washed by water and blown away by the wind.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about smoke, water, love