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A person should want to live, if only out of curiosity.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about curiosity, people

He who can't endure the bad will not live to see the good.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about bad luck, bad, good, good luck

He that can not endure the bad will not live to see the good.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about bad luck, bad, good, good luck

When the time comes for you to live, there aren't enough years.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about time, contentment

If you can't endure the bad, you'll not live to witness the good.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about bad luck, bad, contentment, good, good luck

You must be willing to die in order to live.

Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian about order, death, contentment

For him who does not believe in signs, thre is no way to live in the world.

Proverbs and old sayings Chechen about astrology, faith, world

I never was, am always to be,
No one ever saw me, nor ever will
And yet I am the confidence of all
To live and breathe on this terrestrial ball.
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Riddles

The earth is a beehive; we all enter by the same door but live in different cells.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about earth

If you choose to make friendship with a pig you must be prepared to live in the mad.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about friendship, contentment

The buttocks are like a married couple though there is constant friction between them; they will still love and live together.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about couple, love

Even though the old man is strong and hearty, he will not live forever.

Proverbs and old sayings about man, old, olderness

He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows: he breathes but does not live.

Proverbs and old sayings about generosity, life, day

The first year let your house to your enemy; the second to your friend; the third live in it yourself.

Proverbs and old sayings English about enemies, home, house

To rise at five, dine at nine, sup at five, go to bed at nine, makes a man live to ninety-nine.

Proverbs and old sayings French about man