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Better two skaiths, nor ane sorrow.

Proverbs and old sayings about sadness

Seil comes not while sorrow be gone.

Proverbs and old sayings about sadness

Need gars naked men run, and sorrow gars Websters spin.

Proverbs and old sayings about sadness, need, man

It is weil warit they have sorrow, that buyes it with their silver.

Proverbs and old sayings about sadness

He's weel wordy sorrow that buys it.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about sadness

Let never sorrow come sae near your heart.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about sadness, heart

He's weel worthy o' sorrow that buys it wi' his ain siller.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about sadness

He who hath gold hath fear, and he who hath none has sorrow.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about sadness, fear

One for sorrow, two for joy, Three for a girl, four for a boy. Five for silver, six for gold, And seven for a secret that must never be told.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about joy, secret, sadness

Two in distress makes sorrow less.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about sadness

It rains sorrow on him who is already wet.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about sadness

Better joy in a cottage than sorrow in a palace.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about joy, sadness

Whither goest thou, sorrow? Whither I am used to go.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about sadness

A child is a certain sorrow and uncertain joy.

Proverbs and old sayings Swedish about joy, sadness, children

Don't let your sorrow come higher than your knees.

Proverbs and old sayings Swedish about sadness

He that speaks without care shall remember with sorrow.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish about sadness

He who has no children has one sorrow, he who has children has a thousand sorrows.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish about children, sadness

Borrow causes sorrow.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about sadness

One does not live on joy or die of sorrow.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about joy, sadness

Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about joy, sadness