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We grow too soon old and too late smart.

Proverbs and old sayings about intelligence, old, olderness

Great needs grow from great possessions.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian

A bush does note grow berries in winter.

Proverbs and old sayings Polish

Marry, and grow tame.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese

Grass doesn't grow on a busy street.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese

Would you have potatoes grow by the pot-side?

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about contentment

If you would grow poor without perceiving it, employ workmen and go to sleep.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about sleep, contentment

Happiness can grow from only a little contentment.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment, happiness

On fat land grow foulest weeds.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian

The fox may grow grey, but never good.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about good, good luck

Ears do not grow higher than the head.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about heads

Men who watch their fortune grow find their houses too small.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about wealth, man

Ye'll mend when ye grow better.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

The cow may dee ere the grass grow.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

Ye're unco good and ye'll grow fair.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about good, good luck

He'll no let grass grow at his heels.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

The bushes grow in order to cover defects.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about defects, order

If you would live in health, grow old early.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about old, olderness, contentment

A lot of weeds will grow in a stagnant pond.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

Colts by falling, and lads by losing, grow prudent.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about prudence