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To meet an old friend in a distant country is like the delight of rain after a long drought.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about country, rain, old, olderness

You never meet your mother-in-law on the day that you are welldressed.

Proverbs and old sayings about law, mother, day, contentment

A fool may meet with good fortune, but the wise only profits by it.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about wealth, good, good luck

Don't meet trouble halfway.

Proverbs and old sayings English about problems

When flatters meet, the devil goes to dinner.

Proverbs and old sayings English about devil

When flatterers meet, the devil goes to dinner.

Proverbs and old sayings English about devil

Great wits meet.

Proverbs and old sayings French

Two men may meet, but never two mountains.

Proverbs and old sayings French about man

You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.

Proverbs and old sayings French about destiny, contentment

You often meet your destiny on the road you take to avoid it.

Proverbs and old sayings French about destiny, contentment

Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something, and has lost something.

Proverbs and old sayings French about contentment

Remember that everyone you ever meet is sure to fear something, to love something, and to have lost something.

Proverbs and old sayings French about fear, love, contentment

When swindlers meet a genuinely honest man, they're so astonished they regard him as a greater swindler than themselves.

Proverbs and old sayings about criminals, man

In the end, all foxes meet at the furrier's.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about end

Even things that are far apart can meet as one.

Proverbs and old sayings about things

Don't bid the devil good day till you meet him.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about devil, day, good, good luck, contentment

Two Sir Positives can scarce meet without a skirmish.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

Be kind to those that meet you as you rise, you may pass them again as you fall.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about fall, contentment

At last the foxes all meet at the furrier's.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

Friends may meet, but mountains never greet.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian