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43575 proverbs and old sayings

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost. when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost..

Proverbs and old sayings German about character, wealth, nothing

Saint Martin was an easy man, he loved to drink Cerevisiam; and when he'd no Pecuniam, he left in pledge his Tunicam.

Proverbs and old sayings German about saints, drinking, man

A nail secures the horse-shoe, the shoe the horse, the horse the man, the man the castle, and the castle the whole land.

Proverbs and old sayings German about man

One white foot, buy him; two white feet, try him; three white feet, look well about him; four white feet, go without him.

Proverbs and old sayings German about commerce

Saint Swithun's day, if thou be fair, for forty days it will remain; Saint Swithun's day, if thou bring rain, for forty days it will remain.

Proverbs and old sayings German about day, saints, rain

Who knows nothing in his thirtieth year, is nothing in his fortieth, has nothing in his fiftieth; learns nothing, is nothing, and comes to nothing.

Proverbs and old sayings German about nothing

There is nothing for which the boors pray so much to God as that the horses of the squirearchy may not die, for otherwise they would ride the boors with spurs.

Proverbs and old sayings German about pray, death, nothing, god

There is no medicine against old age.

Proverbs and old sayings Ghanaian about medicine, olderness, age, old

If you find no fish, you have to eat bread.

Proverbs and old sayings Ghanaian about fishing, contentment

The white man lives in the castle; when he dies, he lies in the ground.

Proverbs and old sayings Ghanaian about man

The blacksmith in one village becomes a blacksmith's apprentice in another.

Proverbs and old sayings Ghanaian

Times keep changing.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan

Hate has no medicine.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about hate, medicine

Nobody is shamed twice.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan

A crab does not beget a bird.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan

One lie ruins a thousand truths.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about lie

He who is guilty has much to say.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan

You can always buy her back later.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about commerce, contentment

The rich man may wear old clothes.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about clothes, wealth, man, old, olderness