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When God punishes a land, he deprives it's leaders of wisdom.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about wisdom, god

When house and land are gone and spent, then learning is most excellent.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about home, house

When you buy beef, you buy bones; when you buy land, you buy rocks.

Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican about commerce, rocks, contentment

We have not inherited this land from our ancestors; rather we have borrowed it from our children.

Proverbs and old sayings Kenyan about ancestors, children

A piece of land is not a little thing.

Proverbs and old sayings about things

The land enriches not people who clear it, but people who come.

Proverbs and old sayings about people

Being on sea, sail; being on land, settle.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about being

Man's life is a sojourn in a strange land.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about life, man

He ploughs the land of others, and leaves his own untilled.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

Our native land attracts us with some mysterious charm, never to be forgotten.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about charm

The most pleasant cruise is near the land; the most inviting walk near the sea.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

Only the foolish visit the land of the cannibals.

Proverbs and old sayings

The land is a mother that never dies.

Proverbs and old sayings about mother

Care for the land, Care for the people, Go forward.

Proverbs and old sayings about people

No man's a prophet in his own land.

Proverbs and old sayings Mexican about man

No land without stones, no meat without bones.

Proverbs and old sayings Moroccan

Nobody will plough the land except its cows.

Proverbs and old sayings

Women are just like cats -- they always land on their feet.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian

No one is a prophet in his own land.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese

The one-eyes is a king in the land of the blind.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about blind, eyes