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Better die a beggar than live as a miser.

Proverbs and old sayings French about death

Those who envy die, but envy stays alive.

Proverbs and old sayings French about envy, death

The devil may die without my inheriting his horns.

Proverbs and old sayings French about devil, death

The only real way someone can stop criticism is to die.

Proverbs and old sayings French about criticism, real estate, death

See a pin and let it lie, you'll want a pin before you die.

Proverbs and old sayings French about lie, death, contentment

The mother said I will die, the wife said I will marry, and in the meantime the house is full of dirt.

Proverbs and old sayings Georgian about wife, mother, death, home, house

Fools live poor to die rich.

Proverbs and old sayings German about wealth, death

One has only to die to be praised.

Proverbs and old sayings German about death

Old age is a disease that you die from.

Proverbs and old sayings German about olderness, age, death, old, contentment

As soon a man is born he begins to die.

Proverbs and old sayings German about death, man

Young men may die, but old men must die.

Proverbs and old sayings German about death, man, old, olderness

A man has learned much who has learned how to die.

Proverbs and old sayings German about death, man

A person has learned much who has learned how to die.

Proverbs and old sayings German about people, death

He who finds what has not been lost, will chance to die before he is ill.

Proverbs and old sayings German about chance, death

There is nothing for which the boors pray so much to God as that the horses of the squirearchy may not die, for otherwise they would ride the boors with spurs.

Proverbs and old sayings German about pray, death, nothing, god

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, prepare to die.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek about shame, death, contentment

Without wood the fire would die.

Proverbs and old sayings Gypsy about gypsies, death, fire, fire brigade

The goat that has many owners will be left to die in the sun.

Proverbs and old sayings Hatian about sun, death

The goat which has many owners will be left to die in the sun.

Proverbs and old sayings Hatian about sun, death

If you are born an ass, you will die one.

Proverbs and old sayings about death, contentment