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Don't worry if people call you ordinary -- only if you are ordinary.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about worry, people, contentment

Tell your affairs in the market-place, and one will call them black and another white.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about magic, stores

Give equal in reply, answer according to the call.

Proverbs and old sayings Swedish

Where there are no sheep, they call the goat princess.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish

Who has no intention to pray has no ears for the call to prayer.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish about intention, pray

You play with a snake and call it a worm.

Proverbs and old sayings Yemenite about contentment

Don't call a man honest just because he never had the chance to steal.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about chance, man

You heard me before,
Yet you hear me again,
Then I die,
'Till you call me again.
What am I?

An echo.

Riddles

The crocodile does not die under the water so that we can call the monkey to celebrate its funeral.

Proverbs and old sayings about death, water

You may preach ever so long to the wolf, he will nevertheless call for the lamb before night.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about night, contentment

All offices are greasy (i.e. open to receive what the Dutch call smear-money, a term derived from the fee paid for greasing wheels).

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about money

Life is not a continuum of pleasant choices, but of inevitable problems that call for strength, determination, and hard work.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about determination, problems, work, life

A priest is a man who is called Father by everyone except his own children who are obliged to call him Uncle.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about children, man

Enjoy yourself, for there is nothing in the world we can call our own.

Proverbs and old sayings Macedonian about world, nothing

When you have brains to go along with your wealth you can call yourself happy and content.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about wealth, happiness, contentment

Love one that does not love you, answer one that does not call you, and you will run a fruitless race.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about love, contentment