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To rise at six, eat at ten, sup at six, go to bed at ten, makes a man live years ten times ten.

Proverbs and old sayings French about man

What! No star, and you are going out to sea? Marching, and you have no music? Traveling, and you have no book? What! No love, and you are going out to live?

Proverbs and old sayings French about celebrity, music, contentment, love

While the sun is still up, let people work that the earth may live.

Proverbs and old sayings about earth, sun, work, people

It is a fine thing to die for one's fatherland, but a still finer thing to live for it.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian about things, death

Dance as if no one were watching. Sing as if no one were listening. And live every day as if it were your last.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about dance, day

It would make a man scratch where it doth not itch, To see a man live poor to die rich.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about wealth, death, man

Be as familiar with observation as you are with the place you live.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

You must not tell all that you know, nor judge all that you see, if you would live in peace.

Proverbs and old sayings Mexican about judges, peace, contentment

Youths look at the future, the elderly at the past, our ancestors live in the present.

Proverbs and old sayings about ancestors, present, future, past

We come into this world crying while all around us are smiling. May we so live that we go out of this world smiling while everybody around us is weeping.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about world

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

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about astrology, faith, world

A good-looking man is pleasant to look at, but it is easier to live with an amusing one.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about good, good luck, man

Tell not all you know, nor judge of all you see, if you would live in peace.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about judges, peace, contentment

There are three things which if one does not know, one cannot live long in the world what is too much for one, what is too little for one, and what is just right for one.

Proverbs and old sayings about rightness, world, things

It matters less to a person where they are born than where they can live.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish about people

Small children won't let you sleep, bigger children won't let you live.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about children, sleep, contentment