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He that fights and runs away, lives to fight another day.

Proverbs and old sayings English about fight, day

He who fights and runs away, may live to fight another day.

Proverbs and old sayings English about fight, day

While two dogs are fighting for a bone, a third runs away with it.

Proverbs and old sayings English

One who runs alone cannot be outrun.

Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian

The same water never runs into the same river.

Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian about water

One who runs alone cannot be outrun by another.

Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian

Time runs like the river current.

Proverbs and old sayings about time

Time goes on while life runs out.

Proverbs and old sayings Finnish about life, time

Water runs a whole mile downstream easier than an inch upstream.

Proverbs and old sayings Finnish about water

When the tree is down everybody runs to the branches.

Proverbs and old sayings French

His like Jean de Nivelle's dog, that runs away when he is called.

Proverbs and old sayings French

He that holds the handle of a frying-pan runs the risk of burning himself.

Proverbs and old sayings French about risk

Peace is the well from which the stream of joy runs.

Proverbs and old sayings about joy, peace

When the measure is full, it runs over.

Proverbs and old sayings German about measure

When a man is down, everybody runs over him.

Proverbs and old sayings German about man

When the wine runs to waste in the cellar, he mends the cask.

Proverbs and old sayings German about waste, wine

When two dogs fight for a bone, and the third runs off with it, there's a lawyer among the dogs.

Proverbs and old sayings German about fight

The patient thief is as a tree whose root runs deep as he waits for the sweet fruit..

Proverbs and old sayings Gypsy about gypsies, thieves

Poverty runs after the poor, wealth after the rich.

Proverbs and old sayings about wealth, poverty

Fertile is water that runs under lava.

Proverbs and old sayings Icelandic about water