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A person once wud, or deranged, is always suspected of being so, in the event of anything strange taking place.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about events, being, people

Expect not a very covetous person to be very honest for a long time. Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in nae ither.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about school, experience, people, time

Don't try to make someone hate the person he loves, for he will still go on loving, but he will hate you.

Proverbs and old sayings about hate, people, contentment

There's nothing worse than a person looking for a quarrel.

Proverbs and old sayings Serbian about people, nothing

A person eating must make crumbs.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about people

A secretive person is up to some mischief.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about people

It's a bad sign when the sick person tosses and turns in bed.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about people, bad luck, bad

Whoever falls in love with an old person laments their fortune.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about wealth, people, love, old, olderness

You can tell an educated person by their talk and bells by their ringing.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about people, contentment

A sick person can eat a fig that's ringed with a crown; the burgisotta fig is a treat for the girl.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about people

The person who can see a house in China is unaware of an elephant on his nose.

Proverbs and old sayings about people, home, house

Never take a quiet person for granted. He might have great qualities underneath his quiet nature.

Proverbs and old sayings about quiet, nature, people

During the daylight, a person will not fall into a pit that he fell into during the nighttime.

Proverbs and old sayings about fall, people

One should rise to a person who sees you sitting.

Proverbs and old sayings about people, contentment

A person stands next to a shade not next to words.

Proverbs and old sayings about word, people

When a man sleeps, it is the same person when he wakes up.

Proverbs and old sayings about people, man

The person who does not listen to an elder's advice gets his or her leg broken.

Proverbs and old sayings about advice, people

No one drinks medicine on behalf of a sick person.

Proverbs and old sayings about medicine, people

The impatient person eats goat; the one who hesitates eats beef.

Proverbs and old sayings about people

Each person knows where problems lie.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about problems, lie, people