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If you're filled with pride then you will not have room for wisdom.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about proudness, wisdom, contentment

Big buckets can be filled at small streams.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans

Life is not a cup to be drained, but a measure to be filled.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about measure, life, americans

The cemeteries are filled with people who thought the world couldn't get along without them.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about thinking, world, people, americans

When going to an eating house, go to one that is filled with customers.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about customers, home, house

Little by little the measure is filled.

Proverbs and old sayings about measure

A priest's pocket is not easily filled.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

That bench is well adorned that is filled with virtuous women.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

Great gaps may be filled with small stones.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

Covetousness is never satisfied till its mouth is filled with earth.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about earth

Wishes never filled the bag.

Proverbs and old sayings French

The stomach is easier filled than the eye.

Proverbs and old sayings German

It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek about value, hunger, rest, food, good, good luck

A smokey cabin, a handful of spuds and a flea-filled bed.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

The well-filled belly has little understanding of the empty.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

Humor to a man is like a feather pillow. It is filled with what is easy to get but gives great comfort.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about humor, man

The poorhouse is filled with honest people.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about people

A house full of people is filled with different points of view.

Proverbs and old sayings New Zealand about home, house, people

Sel, sel, has half-filled hell.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about hell

A dry January means a filled hayloft.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian