Sorrow for the death of a father lasts six months; sorrow for a mother, a year; sorrow for a wife, until another wife; sorrow for a son, forever.
Proverbs and old sayings about sadness, wife, death, mother
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Sorrow for a husband is like a pain in the elbow, sharp and short.
Proverbs and old sayings English about pain, husband, sadness
Sorrow is like a precious treasure, shown only to friends.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about treasure, sadness
Sorrow may sadden your face but it sharpens your understanding.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about sadness, face
Sorrow, nobody dies about it.
Proverbs and old sayings Bengali about sadness
Sorrow is the child of too much joy.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about joy, sadness, children
Sorrow seldom comes alone.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about sadness
Sorrow will pay no debts.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about sadness
Sorrow is always dry.
Proverbs and old sayings English about sadness
Sorrow remembered sweetens present joy.
Proverbs and old sayings English about present, joy, sadness
Sorrow does not pay any debts.
Proverbs and old sayings German about sadness
Sorrow is the seed of wealth.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about sadness, wealth
Sorrow follows pleasure.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about pleasure, sadness
Sorrow brings on premature old age.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about olderness, sadness, age, old
Sorrow and ill weather come unsent for.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about weather, sadness
Sorrow dwells on the confines of pleasure.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about pleasure, sadness
Sorrow is like rice in an attic: you use a little every day and at the end it is all gone.
Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about sadness, use, end, day
Sorrow also sings, when it runs to deep to cry.
Proverbs and old sayings Mexican about sadness
Sorrow treads upon the heels of mirth.
Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about sadness
Sorrow doesn't kill, but it blights.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian about sadness
