When you ask, you become a fool for a little while and when you don't ask you become a fool for the rest of your life.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about rest, contentment, life
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A friend is one to whom one can pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keeping what is worth keeping, and, with the breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
Proverbs and old sayings Arab about rest, heart
Kiss the hand of your enemy if you cannot chop it off: Envy has no rest.
Proverbs and old sayings about kiss, envy, rest, enemies, contentment
One thing well done is a hundred done; one thing that fails dooms the rest.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about things, rest
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for the rest of his life.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about fishing, rest, life, man, day
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.
Proverbs and old sayings Greek about value, hunger, rest, food, good, good luck
Love is like fog -- there is no mountain on which it does not rest.
Proverbs and old sayings about rest, love
Weep for the mourners, not for the dead; they have gone to their rest, and we are left to lament.
Proverbs and old sayings about rest
Ten measures of beauty descended on the world; nine went to jerusalem, and one to the rest of the world.
Proverbs and old sayings about world, rest, beauty
For the first five years of your son's life treat him as a prince, for the next ten years as a slave, then as a friend for the rest of his life.
Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about life, rest
It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead the rest of your life.
Proverbs and old sayings Irish about rest, life
It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life.
Proverbs and old sayings Irish about rest, life
A drunken man, when asleep, is better left alone. [Let a slumbering evil rest where it is. ]
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about rest, man
He who is anxious to secure the best tends to get stuck with the worst of the rest.
Proverbs and old sayings Mexican about rest
Get married and you will be happy for a week; slaughter a pig and you will be happy for a month; become a priest and you will be happy for the rest of your life.
Proverbs and old sayings Polish about happiness, rest, life, contentment
Rain falls on everyone, but one person gets wetter than the rest.
Proverbs and old sayings Rwandan about rest, rain, people
Dry your feet and warm your head, and don't worry about the rest.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about worry, rest, heads
Whoever goes on foot during April and May, goes on horseback the rest of the year.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about rest
Even the mightiest eagle comes down to the tree tops to rest.
Proverbs and old sayings Ugandan about rest
