The word yes brings trouble; the word no leads to no evil.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about word, problems
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An old man may miss his target with a stone but never with his word.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about word, man, old, olderness
A wound given by a word is many times harder to cure than that which is given by the sword.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about word
A cutting word is worse than a bowstring, a cut may heal, but the cut of the tongue does not.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about word
As we didn't say a word, he thought he could do anything he liked
Proverbs and old sayings Algerian about thinking, word
Friendship is an empty word if it only works one way.
Proverbs and old sayings South American about friendship, word, americans
Four things come not back -- the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity.
Proverbs and old sayings Arab about chance, past, word, life, things
A word to the wise is sufficient.
Proverbs and old sayings French about word
More than one war has been caused by a single word.
Proverbs and old sayings about war, word
You know a man by the sweat of his brow and the strength of his word.
Proverbs and old sayings about word, man, contentment
If you speak the word it shall own you, and if you don't you shall own it.
Proverbs and old sayings about word, contentment
They have sowed the seed of the word tomorrow and it has not germinated.
Proverbs and old sayings about word
When you have spoken the word, it reigns over you. When it is unspoken you reign over it.
Proverbs and old sayings about word, contentment
While the word is yet unspoken, you are master of it; when once it is spoken, it is master of you.
Proverbs and old sayings about word, contentment
A man says his word to the face.
Proverbs and old sayings Azere about word, face, man
The word that remains in the belly does not mean anything.
Proverbs and old sayings about word
The word of a powerful man is the truth.
Proverbs and old sayings about word, truth, man
The bull should be taken by the horns, a man at his word.
Proverbs and old sayings Bantu about word, man
A well educated man always has a kind word to say about the place where he spends the night.
Proverbs and old sayings Berber about word, night, man
He who heeds the first word of his wife must listen forever to the second.
Proverbs and old sayings Bosnian about word, wife
