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43575 proverbs and old sayings

Pleasures are transient -- honors immortal.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek about immortality

One minute of patience, ten years of peace.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek about patience, peace

Better the first of its kind than the last.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek

A man with a skinny wife is a deceitful man.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek about wife, man

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek about truth, time

In the young, silence is better than speech.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek about silence

The best fish hook cannot catch limp cheese.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek about trap, fishing

A fox is not caught twice in the same snare.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek

You learn to limp if you live with cripples.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek about contentment

An open enemy is better than a false friend.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek about enemies

A good bird begins chirping while in the egg.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek about good, good luck

Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek about ignorance

Pleasures are transient, honors are immortal.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek about immortality

Appear always what you are and a little less.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek about contentment

You have to put a young girl onto an old man.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek about man, old, olderness, contentment

Ask for advice but do what you think is best.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek about advice, contentment

The tongue has no bones, yet it breaks bones.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek

Affairs sleep soundly when fortune is present.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek about present, wealth, sleep

Be thine enemy an ant, see in him an elephant.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek about enemies

A word out of season may mar a whole lifetime.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek about season, word