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Write the bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you on a piece of marble.

Proverbs and old sayings Arab about things, bad luck, bad, good, good luck

Write injuries in sand, kindnesses in marble.

Proverbs and old sayings French

Write with the learned, but speak with the vulgar.

Proverbs and old sayings English about vulgarity

Write down the advice of him who love you, though you like it not at present.

Proverbs and old sayings English about present, advice, love

Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.

Proverbs and old sayings English about present, advice

Write injuries in dust, But kindnesses in marble.

Proverbs and old sayings French

Write injuries in the sand, kindnesses in marble.

Proverbs and old sayings French

Write injuries in dust, But kindnesses in marble. [Fr., Eerivez les injures sue le sable, Mais les bienfaits sur le marbre. ]

Proverbs and old sayings French

Write on one of the devil's horns, Good angel, and many will believe it.

Proverbs and old sayings German about devil, good, good luck

He writes with an iron pen. [That which he writes will not be easily altered. ]

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

The offender writes in dust, the offended writes in marble.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

The law is an ass. From English writer Charles Dickens' novel Oliver Twist

Proverbs and old sayings British about writers, law, old, olderness

A bad writer blames his pen.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about writers, bad luck, bad

Even the best writer has to erase.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about writers

Even the best writer has to erase sometimes.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about writers

A successful writer has a good memory and hopes that others do not have it.

Proverbs and old sayings Swedish about writers, memory, good, good luck

If you steal from one author, it is plagiarism; if you steal from many, it is research. Wilson Mizner (1876–1933), American writer and entrepreneur

Proverbs and old sayings British about research, writers, americans, old, olderness

He who can read and write has four eyes.

Proverbs and old sayings Albanian about eyes

If men could see the epitaphs their friends write they would believe they had gotten into the wrong grave.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about bad, man, americans