Praise gets closer than blame.
Proverbs and old sayings Swedish about praise
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If you close one eye, you will not hear everything.
Proverbs and old sayings Swiss about contentment
In the company of the blind, close your eyes.
Proverbs and old sayings Turkish about companies, blind, eyes
Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet.
Proverbs and old sayings Vietnamese
When the door is closed, you must learn to slide across the crack of the sill.
Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian about contentment
The roughness of a cotton tree is not known until you get close to it.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping in a closed room with a mosquito.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment
The tortoise is friends with the snail: those with shells keep their shells close together.
Proverbs and old sayings
With a king it is the same as with fire - stay neither close by, nor too far away.
Proverbs and old sayings Bulgarian about fire, fire brigade
The doorway to charity is difficult to open and difficult to close.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about charity
A resourceful man knows to avoid a disadvantageous situation close at hand.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about man
He who wants to tell the truth will always stand before closed doors.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about truth
Slander is more deadly than weapons; weapons wound from close range, slander hurts from a distance.
Proverbs and old sayings
Keep both eyes open before you are married and afterwards close only one.
Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican about eyes, contentment
