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A mule can go to Mecca, but it will not come back as a pilgrim.

Proverbs and old sayings

If you don't know where you are going, look back to where you've come from.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

If you don't know where you are going, then look back to where you have come from.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

The best place in the world is on the back of a horse, and the best thing to do in time is to read a book.

Proverbs and old sayings about things, world, time

De sea en' get nuh back door.

Proverbs and old sayings

There is not the son of the front and the son of the back.

Proverbs and old sayings

Dont give away anything and then take it back, or the person you gave it to will set a cat boil for you.

Proverbs and old sayings about people, contentment

Only heaven can see the back of a sparrow.

Proverbs and old sayings Bantu

If you open the eyes of a blind man he wants to go back to the darkness.

Proverbs and old sayings Berber about blind, eyes, man, contentment

Ill comes often on the back of worse.

Proverbs and old sayings British

It is too late to call back yesterday.

Proverbs and old sayings British

It was the last straw that broke the camel's back.

Proverbs and old sayings British

You may break a horse's back, be he never so strong.

Proverbs and old sayings British about contentment

You can pull back your leg, but not your committed word.

Proverbs and old sayings about word, contentment

Never give thanks for a favor held back.

Proverbs and old sayings Chilean about prison

Looking for the ass on its very back.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

Looking for a donkey on its very back.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

Don't hang your conscience on your back.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about conscience

Once on a tiger's back it is hard to alight.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese