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Who can do, don't want to; Who wants to, can't do; Who knows how to do, won't do it; Who does it, doesn't know how to; and, so, badly goes the world.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about world

One can stand still in a flowing stream, but not in a world of men.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about world, man

A person who never travels, believes his mother's cooking is the best in the world.

Proverbs and old sayings about world, mother, people

It is more difficult to contend with oneself than with the world.

Proverbs and old sayings about world

Don't tell a secret to anybody, unless you want the whole world to know it.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about secret, world

Of no worldly good can the joy be perfect, unless it is shared by a friend.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about perfection, joy, good, good luck

Morn with her rosy locks dispels the shades of night, and the sun puts to flight the stars, lighting up the world.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about flight, celebrity, stars, sun, night, world

The dog that fetches will also carry. (Translation If someone reveals another's secrets to you, the same person will reveal your secrets to the world. )

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about world, people

Like the migrating Maruiwi, who all disappeared into the world of spirits Dead like the moa.

Proverbs and old sayings about world

Greed keeps men forever poor, even the abundance of this world will not make them rich.

Proverbs and old sayings Mongolian about greed, wealth, world, man

There is no death, only a change of worlds.

Proverbs and old sayings about change, death, americans

Not to know the good we have Till time has stolen the cherish'd gift away, Is cause of half the misery that we feel, And makes the world the wilderness it is.

Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian about gifts, world, time, good, good luck

One spark is enough to burn a hundred worlds.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian

A beggar will always be a beggar even if they give him the whole world as a gift.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about gifts, world

For him who does not believe in signs, there is no way to live in the world.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about astrology, world

Hap and an halfpennie is worlds geir enough.

Proverbs and old sayings

The best of all worlds: A sunny Christmas and a log fire on Easter.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about christmas, fire, fire brigade

All's for the best in the best of all possible worlds.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

If you don't have what it takes you won't get on in the world.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about world

There are three things which if one does not know, one cannot live long in the world what is too much for one, what is too little for one, and what is just right for one.

Proverbs and old sayings about rightness, world, things