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Possession is the grave of pleasure.

Proverbs and old sayings French about pleasure

Glutton: one who digs his grave with his teeth.

Proverbs and old sayings French

Greedy eaters dig their graves with their teeth.

Proverbs and old sayings French

What is learned in the cradle lasts till the grave.

Proverbs and old sayings French

A glutton is one who digs his grave with his teeth.

Proverbs and old sayings French

What is learned in the cradle is carried to the grave.

Proverbs and old sayings French

The graveyards are full of young lawyers, lost inheritance and young doctors.

Proverbs and old sayings French

With one foot in the grave.

Proverbs and old sayings German

A young doctor means a new graveyard.

Proverbs and old sayings German

The most beautiful roses grow on graves.

Proverbs and old sayings German

He who lies in the grave, is well lodged.

Proverbs and old sayings German

If you want equality, then go to the graveyard.

Proverbs and old sayings German about equality, contentment

A young wife is an old man's post-horse to the grave.

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

A marriage in later years sends a letter to the grave digger.

Proverbs and old sayings German about marriage

We became gravediggers but nobody dies anymore.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek

He turns in his grave.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

He has already one foot in the grave.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

A house without children is a graveyard.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about children, home, house

If you dig a grave for others, you might fall into it yourself.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about fall, contentment

He who insults another, digs two graves.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about insults