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You must be fully prepared to lose a great deal in order to make a great deal.

Proverbs and old sayings about order, contentment

When God wants to please a poor man, He lets him lose his donkey and then helps him find it again.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish about god, man

Better to lose a minute in your life than your life in a minute.

Proverbs and old sayings about life

You never lose a false coin.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about contentment

Look for cake, and lose your bread.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish

A flatterer must not lose his temper.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish

If you have nothing to lose, you can try everything.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about nothing, contentment

It's not so terrible when you lose money. when courage is lost, all is lost.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about courage, money, contentment

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

Ones neighbours problems, does not induce one to lose their appetite over them.

Proverbs and old sayings about problems

Use people who have something to gain, not people with nothing to lose.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about people, use, nothing

Don't be stupid to replace wisdom with knowledge because you will lose understanding.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about knowledge, wisdom, contentment

The palm-wine we drink, some people can drink it and remain wise; others lose all their senses.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about drinking, wine, people

If you offer to share your seat with a person who has a big bottom your bound to lose it completely.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about people, contentment

He's no fool who parts with what he can't keep to get what he shall not lose.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans

If you forsake a certainty and depend on an uncertainty, you will lose both the certainty and the uncertainty.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

It is a little thing to starve to death; it is a serious matter to lose one's virtue.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about virtue, things, death

The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about olderness, age, woman, old

The camel asking for horns lost also his ears. [In grasping for things we need not, we often lose what we have. ]

Proverbs and old sayings English about need, things

Who does not venture gets neither horse nor mule, and who ventures too much lose horse and mule.

Proverbs and old sayings French