One person's candle furnishes light for many.
Proverbs and old sayings about light, people
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Sometimes one has to light a candle for the devil too.
Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian about light, devil
Never burn a penny candle looking for a halfpenny.
Proverbs and old sayings Irish
Never burn your fingers to snuff another man's candle.
Proverbs and old sayings Irish about man
Neither women nor linen by candlelight.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian
Choose neither a lover nor linen by candlelight.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian
Choose neither a woman nor linen by candlelight.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about woman
Whoever stays awake longest must blow out the candle.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian
Life is a candle before the wind.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about life
We are no more than candles burning in the wind.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese
Life? That is a candle in the wind; frost upon a roof; the twitching of the fish in a pan.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about fishing, life
Don't sell the sun to buy a candle.
Proverbs and old sayings Jewish about commerce, sun
Light a candle for God and another for the devil.
Proverbs and old sayings Polish about light, devil, god
Too many candles will burn down the church.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese
You may light another's candle with your own without loss.
Proverbs and old sayings about light, contentment
When the candles are out, all women are fair.
Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian
It is sometimes good to hold a candle to the devil.
Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about devil, good, good luck
Never choose your women or your linen by candlelight.
Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian
Thanks to one small candle the whole of Moscow burns.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian
To know that candles are expensive is of no value to the blind man.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian about value, blind, man
