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When you are in a hurry, the horse holds back.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about contentment

Water thrown out is hard to put back into the container.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about water

To find out about the road ahead, ask those coming back.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

Don't look back when you are walking along the edge of a wall.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about contentment

Even the most beautiful morning cannot bring back the evening.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

An able horse will never come back to feed in the same stable.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

Choose your inn before dark, get back on the road before dawn.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about dark

Lend money to someone who won't pay you back and he'll hate you.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about hate, money, contentment

It is often more difficult to come back home than it is to go away.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about home

It is easier to get a chicken back in the egg than to undo a slander.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

Hold back some goods for a thousand days and you will be sure to sell at a profit.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about commerce, day, contentment

Four things come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about chance, past, word, life, things

Eat with your mouth, pay with your back.

Proverbs and old sayings

The back dies for the shoulder and the shoulder knows nothing about it.

Proverbs and old sayings about nothing

His whole life he carried his wife on his back.

Proverbs and old sayings Croatian about wife, life

A child's back must be bent early.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about children

A man cannot carry all his kin on his back.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about man

Don't sail out farther than you can row back.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about contentment

A foul mouth must be provided with a strong back.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

It will come back, said the man, when he gave his sow pork.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about man