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How you run your life, that's how your clock will run.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about life, contentment

Small children disturb your sleep, big children your life.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about children, sleep, life

If a person is fated to drown, he'll lose his life even in a teaspoon of water.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about people, life, water

If ever you should need my life, come and take it.

Proverbs and old sayings Yugoslavian about need, life, contentment

Man is learning all his life and yet he dies in ignorance.

Proverbs and old sayings Yugoslavian about ignorance, life, man

Without life there is nothing.

Proverbs and old sayings Zulu about life, nothing

There are 3 simple rules in life:
- don't promise when you're happy,
- don't answer when you're nervous,
- don't decide when you're angry.

Proverbs and old sayings British about life, rules, promise, happiness, contentment

To neglect one's ancestors would bring ill-fortune and failure in life.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about failure, ancestors, wealth, life

It's the tortoise's shell, ugly and hard that protects its life long journey on earth.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about earth, life

When you lose on the drum-beating if the gods, you lose on the rhythm and pace of life.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about gods, life, contentment

The miserly man is like a fattened ox: he will give of his fat only when he has been deprived of his life.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about life, man

Give a man a fish and he won't starve for a day. Teach a man how to fish and he won't starve for his entire life.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about fishing, life, man, day

When you ask, you become a fool for a little while and when you don't ask you become a fool for the rest of your life.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about rest, contentment, life

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about world, contentment, death, life, americans

There are many kinds of fruit that grow on the tree of life, but none so sweet as friendship.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about friendship, life, americans

Cheerfulness, helpfulness and honesty are fine, good companions to take with you through life.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about honesty, life, americans, good, good luck, contentment

Four things come not back -- the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity.

Proverbs and old sayings Arab about chance, past, word, life, things

Man is like a palm on the beach; moving with the wind of life.

Proverbs and old sayings about life, man

Seven days king, seven days minister, slave for the rest of your life.

Proverbs and old sayings about day, rest, life