Private reproof is the best grave for private faults.
Proverbs and old sayings
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Houses are the graves of the living.
Proverbs and old sayings
Who came back from the grave and told the story?
Proverbs and old sayings Tunisian
Man learns from the cradle to the grave.
Proverbs and old sayings Welsh about man
Doctors and gravediggers are partners.
Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish
Traditional Wexford Curse
May the grass grow at your door and the fox build his nest on your hearthstone.
May the light fade from your eyes, so you never see what you love.
May your own blood rise against you, and the sweetest drink you...
Spells and incantations British
If you're growing in Age, then you're nearing to the Graveyard
Proverbs and old sayings British about olderness, age, contentment, old
A dead body cannot urge over how it should be placed in the grave.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about body
Food gained by fraud tastes sweet to a man, but he ends up with gravel in his mouth.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about end, food, man
If men could see the epitaphs their friends write they would believe they had gotten into the wrong grave.
Proverbs and old sayings South American about faith, bad, man, americans
Every son of Adam keeps hoping until he is carried away to his grave.
Proverbs and old sayings
Who strikes his father or mother his hand will grow out of the grave.
Proverbs and old sayings Estonian about mother
A beggar on his feet is worth more than an emperor in his grave.
Proverbs and old sayings French
A fly that has no one to advice it, follows the corpse into the grave.
Proverbs and old sayings about advice
He who dies for the truth finds holy ground everywhere for his grave.
Proverbs and old sayings German about truth
A man who believes that he can do everything, let him dig a grave and bury himself.
Proverbs and old sayings Igbo about man
When your own funeral is approaching, you don't pick and choose your grave diggers.
Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican about contentment
