If you want to perform a good jump, sometimes you need to start by taking a step back.
Proverbs and old sayings German about need, contentment, good, good luck
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He who is born to misfortunate stumbles as he goes, and though he fall on his back will fracture his nose.
Proverbs and old sayings German about fall
It was needed as a Slovak glazier needed falling on his back.
Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian
If a baby crawls up to me and pinches me, I will get on my knees and pinch him back.
Proverbs and old sayings Igbo
A guest should not cause his host's demise. When the guest is ready to leave, his host should not have given him a hunch-back.
Proverbs and old sayings Igbo
Once you lost the trust of someone, it is almost impossible to gain it back.
Proverbs and old sayings about impossible, contentment
A ring on a good woman's finger is no good without a blouse on her back.
Proverbs and old sayings Irish about good, good luck, woman
Don't approach a goat from the front, a horse from the back, or a fool from any side.
Proverbs and old sayings
To become rich in this world, it needs only to turn one's back on God.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about wealth, world, god
He who wants milk should not sit in the middle of a field and wait for a cow to back up to him.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian
She wants to have buttermilk, but has hidden the pot brought for it behind one's back.
Proverbs and old sayings
Possessions dwindle: I mourn their loss. But I mourn the loss of time much more, for anyone can save his purse, but none can win back lost time.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about time
Once the mushroom has sprouted from the earth, there is no turning back.
Proverbs and old sayings about earth
Do not treat your loved one like a swinging door: you are fond of it but you push it back and forth.
Proverbs and old sayings about contentment
They who drink the water from the Manangareza river always come back to Madagascar.
Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about drinking, water
May your friendship not be like a stone: if it breaks you cannot put the pieces together. May it be like iron: when it breaks, you can weld the pieces back together.
Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about friendship, contentment
A child who has no mother will not have scars to show on his back.
Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian about children, mother
A lizard that fell from the top of a tree wastes its time looking back to where it fell from; if there was anything good the lizard deserved, it could not have missed it while it was there on top of the tree.
Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian about time, good, good luck
If a fool borrows a book cut off his hand; but cut off both hands of the fool who brings it back.
Proverbs and old sayings Persian
The liar will travel the world over, but chooses not to go back home.
Proverbs and old sayings Polish about home, world
