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Smoke, floods, and a troublesome wife, are enough to drive a man out of his life.

Proverbs and old sayings French about smoke, wife, life, man

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

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

Beware of the front of a bull, the back of a horse and both sides of a blind man.

Proverbs and old sayings Georgian about blind, man

Away with you, be a peddlar, a knave, says the hangman to his man.

Proverbs and old sayings German about man, contentment

Sometimes the whole nation has to pay for the foolish deed of one man.

Proverbs and old sayings German about nation, man

The praise of a thousand jesters counts for nothing against the reprimand of one wise man.

Proverbs and old sayings German about clowns, praise, nothing, man

A fence lasts three years, a dog lasts three fences, a horse three dogs, and a man three horses.

Proverbs and old sayings German about man

The monkey says there is nothing better than poverty to unlearn man of his conceit.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about poverty, nothing, man

Even though the sound of the horn is not pleasant, it is still blown by a man's mouth.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about man

The thief who has no opportunity to steal thinks he is an honest man.

Proverbs and old sayings about chance, thieves, man

I was young, now i'm old, and i did not see a righteous man forsaken and his children begging for bread.

Proverbs and old sayings about children, man, old, olderness

There is nothing noble in being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.

Proverbs and old sayings about being, self-control, nothing, man

The speech, actions, manner of movement, and turban of each man differs from all others.

Proverbs and old sayings about man

The supreme law of the land is the Great Spirit's law, not man's law.

Proverbs and old sayings about law, spirit, man

An offer of friendship to a friend's foe is unbecoming an honorable man.

Proverbs and old sayings Icelandic about friendship, man

Cattle die, kinsmen die, and so shall you die too. But one thing I know that never dies: the fame of a dead man's deeds.

Proverbs and old sayings Icelandic about death, fame, deeds, things, man, contentment

All the water in the sea doesn't even reach the knees of the man who fears not death.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about death, water, man

Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant; but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about man

A fire will sear and the sun burn yet more, but neither can match the ardor of a man's heart.

Proverbs and old sayings about sun, fire, fire brigade, heart, man