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Goods given make quicker return than goods held.

Proverbs and old sayings Tahitian about prison

When you go, the road is rough; when you return, smooth.

Proverbs and old sayings Thai about contentment

On the way out, the road is rough; returning, it is smooth.

Proverbs and old sayings Thai

Traveling is a return to the essentials.

Proverbs and old sayings Tibetan

If someone hits you with a stone, hit him with bread; your bread will return to you and his stone will return to him.

Proverbs and old sayings Tunisian about contentment

Receive a plum, return a peach.

Proverbs and old sayings Vietnamese

Send a fool to the market and a fool he will return.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about stores

A lie can take you far away -- but with no hope of return.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about hope, lie, contentment

Who asks at once for a lot, returns home with an empty bag.

Proverbs and old sayings Yugoslavian about home

Martisor - the celebration of spring

Martisor is a Romanian ancient tradition, it’s been dated for 8000 years, which celebrates the beginning of the spring on 1 March. Is the celebration of joy, freshness, the victory of Good against Bad. The...

Traditions and superstitions Romanian

Though a tree grow ever so high, the falling leaves return to the ground.

Proverbs and old sayings Guatemalan

We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love... and then we return home.

Proverbs and old sayings Australian about purpose, home, time, love

A genuine gift is like water when it flows out it can never return.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about gifts, water

Where you've ever left without a quarrel is where you're about to return.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment

What is put in a basket before going to the market won't be the same thing returned in the basket.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about stores, things

Even if the nightingale is in a gold cage, she still dreams of returning to the forest.

Proverbs and old sayings Armenian about dream

Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love; and then we return home.

Proverbs and old sayings Australian about purpose, home, love

A vacant mind is open to all suggestions, as a hollow mountain returns all sounds.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about mind

Wish thy friend joy of his journey, but pray in secret that he have no joy, for then may he return quickly to thee.

Proverbs and old sayings Egyptian about joy, pray, wish, secret

One should punish a child the first time he comes home with a stolen egg. Otherwise, the day he returns home with a stolen ox, it will be too late.

Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian about home, children, time, day