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As you slide down the banister of life, may the splinters never point the wrong way.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about bad, life, contentment

He who wrongs someone has to expect something in retaliation.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

Tickle us, do we not laugh? Prick us, do we not bleed? Wrong us, shall we not seek revenge?

Proverbs and old sayings about revenge, bad

We hate the man whom we have wronged.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about hate, man

Fear the reckoning of those you have wronged.

Proverbs and old sayings about fear, contentment

A stone thrown at the right time is better than a stone thrown at the wrong time.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about time, bad, rightness

Better to be wrongfully excommunicated than to make a death bed confession.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about confession, death

Who fails to listen to his elders, will hang his knapsack in the wrong place.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about bad

If you show a rich man kindness, you gain nothing, but when you wrong him he avenges himself instantly.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about bad, wealth, nothing, contentment, man

Since I wronged you, I have never liked you.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about contentment

If your inner mind isn't deceived, your outer actions won't be wrong.

Proverbs and old sayings Tibetan about bad, mind

If the inner mind is not deluded, the outer actions will not be wrong.

Proverbs and old sayings Tibetan about bad, mind

The forest should be burned when a sapling grows wrongly.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish

A clock that stands still is better than one that goes wrong.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about bad

Protest long enough that you are right, and you will be wrong.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about bad, rightness, contentment

A bad workman always blames his tools.

Proverbs and old sayings Polish about tools, bad luck, bad

Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Proverbs and old sayings British about hope, bad luck, bad, good, good luck

Give to a pig when it grunts and a child when it cries, and you will have a fine pig and a bad child.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about children, bad luck, bad, contentment

Men never moan over the opportunities lost to do good, only the opportunities to be bad.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek about chance, man, bad luck, bad, good, good luck

It's too bad to want a thing and not be allowed it.

Proverbs and old sayings Norwegian about things, bad luck, bad