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It is easier to be a happy bachelor for a year than a widower for a month.

Proverbs and old sayings Lebanese about happiness

He who knew you when you were young will not respect you when you grow up.

Proverbs and old sayings Lebanese about respect, contentment

If you fall in love let her be a beauty; if you should steal, let it be a camel.

Proverbs and old sayings Lebanese about beauty, fall, love, contentment

The person who knew you when you were young will seldom respect you as an adult.

Proverbs and old sayings Lebanese about respect, people, contentment

Good advice once was worth a camel; now that it is free of charge, no one takes it.

Proverbs and old sayings Lebanese about advice, good, good luck

If anyone is not willing to accept your point of view, try to see his point of view.

Proverbs and old sayings Lebanese

When you come back from a trip bring something for the family -- even if it is only a stone.

Proverbs and old sayings Lebanese about family, contentment

Better to have one thousand enemies outside the house than to have one single enemy inside it.

Proverbs and old sayings Lebanese about enemies, home, house

When you come back from a long journey, offer your family something though it be only a stone.

Proverbs and old sayings Lebanese about family, contentment

When they came to shoe the horse of the sultan, along comes the beetle and sticks out her foot.

Proverbs and old sayings Lebanese

When you return from a trip, bring back something for your family -- even if it is only a stone.

Proverbs and old sayings Lebanese about family, contentment

If a rich man eats a snake, people call it wisdom; if a poor man does the same thing, people call it derangement.

Proverbs and old sayings Lebanese about people, wisdom, things, wealth, man

Do good and throw it into the sea -- if it is not appreciated by an ungrateful man, it will be appreciated by God.

Proverbs and old sayings Lebanese about god, good, good luck, man

The partner of my partner is not my partner.

Proverbs and old sayings

It is best to bind up the finger before it is cut.

Proverbs and old sayings

If the palm of the hand itches it signifies the coming of great luck.

Proverbs and old sayings about bad luck, good luck

The dog's bark is not might, but fright.

Proverbs and old sayings Liberian about fear

Do not measure the timbers for your house in the forest.

Proverbs and old sayings Liberian about measure, home, house

Let your love be like the misty rain, coming softly, but flooding the river.

Proverbs and old sayings Liberian about rain, love

If you try to cleanse others - like soap, you will waste away in the process!

Proverbs and old sayings Liberian about waste, contentment