If begging should unfortunately be your lot, knock at the large gates only.
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Look and keep silent, and if you are eating meat, tell the world it's fish.
Proverbs and old sayings about fishing, world, contentment
Better to have bread and an onion with peace than stuffed fowl with strife.
Proverbs and old sayings about peace
A man's worth depends on his two smallest organs: his heart and his tongue.
Proverbs and old sayings about heart, man
If you don't know where you are going, look back to where you've come from.
Proverbs and old sayings about contentment
Wisdom consists of ten parts: nine parts silence, and one part a few words.
Proverbs and old sayings about silence, wisdom, word
A poor man would like to have some fun, but he cannot find the right place.
Proverbs and old sayings about rightness, man
There has to be a first time for everything -- even our most natural habits.
Proverbs and old sayings about habits, time
There has to be a first time for everything -- even the most natural habits.
Proverbs and old sayings about habits, time
O! my brother Flip the pot on its mouth, the daughters turn into their mums.
Proverbs and old sayings
They have sowed the seed of the word tomorrow and it has not germinated.
Proverbs and old sayings about word
Youths are like waves of the sea, the elderly have strength instead of tide.
Proverbs and old sayings
Every person is observant to the flaws of others and blind to his own flaws.
Proverbs and old sayings about blind, people
Throw a lucky man into the sea, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth.
Proverbs and old sayings about fishing, man
Whoever knows how to use a pen never adds his own name to the guilty list.
Proverbs and old sayings about name, use
Goha said to his son that he wont sleep beside him. Said: Saved us your farts.
Proverbs and old sayings about sleep
The man with no patience waits for daylight, and when it comes he'll be blind.
Proverbs and old sayings about patience, blind, man
I got you, O! worshiper of the helper, to help me but you are in need of help.
Proverbs and old sayings about help, need, contentment
Those who argue with each other on the highway will often make up in the lane.
Proverbs and old sayings
The whisper of a pretty girl can be heard further off than the roar of a lion.
Proverbs and old sayings
