A weak person goes where he is smiled at.
Proverbs and old sayings about people
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The person who is too humble becomes a scoundrel.
Proverbs and old sayings about people
Never help a person who doesn't help anybody else.
Proverbs and old sayings about help, people
Never interfere in a person's decisions about what he will do with his possessions.
Proverbs and old sayings about people
The agreement depends on two persons.
Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian about people
The person who trusts is happy; the person who doubts is wise.
Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian about people, happiness
It is not good to eat cherries from the same dish with persons of high rank.
Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian about people, good, good luck
If one person calls you a horse, laugh at him. If a second person calls you a horse, think about it.
Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian about people, contentment
When the music stops, a deaf person continues to dance.
Proverbs and old sayings Igbo about music, dance, people
A person can never run so fast as to run away from his backside.
Proverbs and old sayings Igbo about fasting, people
No one gets a mouthful of food by picking between another person's teeth.
Proverbs and old sayings Igbo about food, people
When a person is not as she used to be, she does not behave as she used to behave.
Proverbs and old sayings Igbo about people
A person who is being carried to the market does not realize that the way is long.
Proverbs and old sayings Igbo about stores, being, people
A person who chases a chicken is due a fall. The chicken is a master of the dodged escaped.
Proverbs and old sayings Igbo about fall, people
A person who underneath the tall palm tree is best positioned to tell on which side the ripe head is.
Proverbs and old sayings Igbo about heads, people
A person who uses the world as his carrying pad will find himself carrying his load on his bare head.
Proverbs and old sayings Igbo about world, heads, people
A person who arrives at a feast when the cooked meat is being pulled out of the pot does not know what was endured by others to catch and cook it.
Proverbs and old sayings Igbo about feast, kitchen, being, trap, people
A person who happens by a neighbor's house at dinner time, and is invited to join the meal, does not swallow such large morsels as to break the string of pearls around his neck.
Proverbs and old sayings Igbo about people, home, house, time
One person can burn water, while another can't even burn oil.
Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about people, water
A person who misses a chance and the monkey who misses its branch can't be saved.
Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about chance, people
