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Medicine left in the bottle can't help.

Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian about medicine, help

After we fry the fat, we see what is left.

Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian

A woman without teeth shall be left to the lions.

Proverbs and old sayings about woman

War doesn't determine who is right, war determines who is left.

Proverbs and old sayings Chinese about war, rightness

Holiday of Saint Nicolae

Saint Nicolae is the spiritual patriarch in Holland, Russia, Greece, France and in a lot of cities from Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy and Belgium. He is known as the protector of poor people, sailors, tradesmen,...

Traditions and superstitions Romanian

A child who protested when being stripped on the back by its mother, it's humbled by the scorching sun when left to walk.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about being, sun, children, mother

How great the grandfathers are, but how regretful what they left behind.

Proverbs and old sayings

March, mean, son of an ogre! You've taken all my suckling lambs and left only one weaned lamb. - Oh April, my brother, give me two days, because alone, I don't have them.

Proverbs and old sayings about day, contentment

Who serves the mass is thanked by none, but cursed if aught left undone.

Proverbs and old sayings French

Saint Martin was an easy man, he loved to drink Cerevisiam; and when he'd no Pecuniam, he left in pledge his Tunicam.

Proverbs and old sayings German about saints, drinking, man

Weep for the mourners, not for the dead; they have gone to their rest, and we are left to lament.

Proverbs and old sayings about rest

The fox advised the others to cut off their tails, because he had left his own in the trap.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about trap

Nobility without wealth is more worthless than the seaweed which the tide has left.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about wealth

I am dead. It is as if everybody were dead. Let the man left behind shut the door if he wants to.

Proverbs and old sayings Maltese about man

Roof tiles are positioned to face downwards so that husbands and wives can be left alone.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about face