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Old men are twice children.

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

An old cat likes young mice.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek about old, olderness

An old enemy never becomes a friend.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek about enemies, old, olderness

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

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

An eagle's old age is worth a sparrow's youth.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek about olderness, youth, age, old

Old age and poverty are wounds that can't be healed.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek about olderness, poverty, age, old

Old age and treachery will overcome youth and skill.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek about olderness, youth, age, old

A young man should not marry yet, an old man not at all.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek about man, old, olderness

The old age of an eagle is better than the youth of a sparrow.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek about olderness, youth, age, old

Take a young woman for the pleasure of possessing her until she is old.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek about pleasure, woman, old, olderness

A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit.

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

A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.

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

When your drunk the old woman tastes like a virgin..

Proverbs and old sayings Gypsy about gypsies, woman, old, olderness

A lonely old crow, see someone you know, Fly to your right, sure to be right, And if you are hawking, money before night.

Proverbs and old sayings Gypsy about rightness, gypsies, night, money, contentment, old, olderness

The rat knows full well that, if the cat is old and feeble, its claws are not.

Proverbs and old sayings Hatian about old, olderness

Old wine is good for the stomach.

Proverbs and old sayings about wine, good, good luck, old, olderness

A young tree bends, an old tree breaks.

Proverbs and old sayings about old, olderness

Time heals old pain, while it creates new ones.

Proverbs and old sayings about pain, time, old, olderness

An old man in the house is a burden, but an old woman is a treasure.

Proverbs and old sayings about burden, treasure, home, house, woman, old, olderness, man

I was young, now i'm old, and i did not see a righteous man forsaken and his children begging for bread.

Proverbs and old sayings about children, man, old, olderness