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A man who rushes into battle does not realize that battle entails death.

Proverbs and old sayings Igbo about death, man

All the water in the sea doesn't even reach the knees of the man who fears not death.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about death, water, man

It is better to sit down than to stand, it is better to lie down than to sit, but death is the best of all.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about lie, death

We have to fight for our freedom as long as it takes, and we shall not mind the death following our struggle for independence.

Proverbs and old sayings about fight, independence, mind, death

What you give for the cause of charity in health is gold; what you give in sickness is silver; what you give after death is lead.

Proverbs and old sayings Jewish about charity, death, contentment

The property of a helpless man must nit be divided before his death.

Proverbs and old sayings about death, man

Let it be well recorded that a harlot is a gate which leads to death.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about death

There grows not the herb, which can protect against the power of death.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about power, death

There is an herb for every kind of sickness but not for death.

Proverbs and old sayings Lithuanian about death

When a dead tree falls, the woodpeckers profit from his death.

Proverbs and old sayings Guatemalan about death

The betrothed of good is evil; the betrothed of life is death; the betrothed of love is divorce.

Proverbs and old sayings Guatemalan about death, life, love, good, good luck

As a child, is a man wrapped in his mother's womb; as an adult, in tradition; comes death, and he is wrapped in earth.

Proverbs and old sayings Guatemalan about tradition, earth, children, death, mother, man

Better to be wrongfully excommunicated than to make a death bed confession.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about confession, death

Happy are those who are well born, but happier are those who have a good death.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about happiness, death, good, good luck

When you're invited, eat heartily, because if they like you they'll laugh, and if they don't like you they'll feel the pangs of death.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about death, contentment

We come and cry and that is life, we cry and go and that is death.

Proverbs and old sayings about death, life

Lesson: Don't lose your pen

1. Lost Your Pen = No Pen
2. No Pen = No Notes
3. No Notes = No Study
4. No Study = Fail
5. Fail = No Diploma
6. No Diploma = No Work
7. No Work = No Money
8. No Money = No Food
9. No Food = You Get Skinny
10. Skinny = Then You Get Ugly...

Proverbs and old sayings American about teaching, depression, marriage, food, children, work, money, death, contentment

Better to die than to live on with a bad reputation.

Proverbs and old sayings Vietnamese about prestige, death, bad luck, bad

As soon as man is born he begins to die.

Proverbs and old sayings British about death, man

Better die with honor than live with shame.

Proverbs and old sayings British about shame, death