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Birth, ancestry, and that which you yourself have not achieved can hardly be called your own.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek about contentment

Birth's good but breeding's better.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about good, good luck

Birth is much, but breeding is more.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

Birth is the messenger of death.

Proverbs and old sayings Syrian about death

When a cock invites a cockroach for a birthday party, he has prepared dinner for himself.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about birthday

Only three things in life are certain birth, death and change.

Proverbs and old sayings Ukrainian about change, death, life, things

A dog gives birth to a dog.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

The buried do not give birth.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

Those who give birth to nincompoop it's not their wish.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about wish

Better give birth to a sweating baby than a laughing one.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

A mother cannot give birth to something bigger than herself.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about mother

She who gives birth to triplets cannot ask for a third breast.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

Of what good is giving birth when later there regrets of disrespect.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about good, good luck

That you don't give birth too, you let him or her carry a stone on the head.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about heads, contentment

An animal that gives birth to a young one in the desert must suckle it in the desert.

Proverbs and old sayings West African