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Our pleasures are shallow, our sorrows are deep.

Proverbs and old sayings

Pleasures are shallow, sorrows deep.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

Great doubts deep wisdom. Small doubts little wisdom.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about wisdom

It's not that the well is too deep, but rather the rope is too short.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

The virtue of a woman does not go deep but her passion knows no limit.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about limits, virtue, woman

When there are no great tigers in the deep mountains, even a monkey can become king.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

When the crocodile says that the river crossing is deep you must believe it.

Proverbs and old sayings about faith, contentment

I wish that he would sink as deep in the ground as a hare can run in ten years.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about wish

There's always a deep breath before a plunge.

Proverbs and old sayings English

Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes straight to the bone.

Proverbs and old sayings English about beauty

A little knowledge is dangerous. Drink deep, or taste not the puritan waters.

Proverbs and old sayings English about knowledge, drinking

He who digs too deep for a fish, may come out with a snake.

Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian about fishing

High climbers and deep swimmers never grow old.

Proverbs and old sayings German about old, olderness

Gold lies deep in the mountain, dirt on the highway.

Proverbs and old sayings German

You have to dig deep to bury your daddy.

Proverbs and old sayings Gypsy about gypsies, contentment

The patient thief is as a tree whose root runs deep as he waits for the sweet fruit..

Proverbs and old sayings Gypsy about gypsies, thieves

He was thrown into deep water.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian about water

A clever pig extracts a deep root.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian about intelligence

Be careful for deep water and dogs that do not bark.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about water

Beauty is only skin deep, ugliness goes to the bone.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about ugliness, beauty