If heaven drops you a date, it must be received with an open mouth.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about contentment
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If at home you receive no visitors, then abroad you will have no host.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about home, contentment
A bride received into the home is like a horse that you have just bought; you break her in by constantly mounting her and continually beating her.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about home, contentment
To give in order to receive is not to give, but to beg.
Proverbs and old sayings about order
For the concert of life, no one receives a program.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about life
All offices are greasy (i.e. open to receive what the Dutch call smear-money, a term derived from the fee paid for greasing wheels).
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about money
Hands that give also receive.
Proverbs and old sayings
Ask and you shall receive.
Proverbs and old sayings English about contentment
It's better to give than to receive.
Proverbs and old sayings English
Earth produces all things and receives all again.
Proverbs and old sayings English about earth, things
He that is too proud to ask is too good to receive.
Proverbs and old sayings English about proudness, good, good luck
He who is too proud to ask is too good to receive.
Proverbs and old sayings French about proudness, good, good luck
Who receives, should thank; who gives, should be silent.
Proverbs and old sayings German about contentment
All receive advice. Only the wise profit from it.
Proverbs and old sayings Greek about advice
It is a greater gift to give than to receive.
Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about gifts
Good people, like clouds, receive only to give away.
Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about people, good, good luck
Who gives sell, sells dear, if the receiver be not a churl.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about commerce
He who does the wrong forgets it, but not he who receives it.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about bad
To receive a favor is to sell one's liberty.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about liberty, commerce
He who receives a gift does not measure.
Proverbs and old sayings Kenyan about measure, gifts
