The dog's tail, even if buried for twelve years, will remain as crooked as ever.
Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian
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Keep a thing for seven years and you'll find a use for it.
Proverbs and old sayings Irish about use, things, contentment
Keep a thing seven years and you'll always find a use for it.
Proverbs and old sayings Irish about use, things, contentment
Every ten years one man has need of another.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about need, man
Revenge a hundred years old has still its milk-teeth.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about revenge, old, olderness
A hundred years cannot repair a moment's loss of honour.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about moment, honour
One minute of patience can result in ten years of peace.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about patience, peace
A bad wife is a poor harvest for sixty years.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about wife, bad luck, bad
A bad wife is one hundred years of bad harvest.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about bad luck, bad, wife
Even a thief takes ten years to learn his trade.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about commerce, thieves
After three years useless things are useful too.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about things
The spirit of a three-year-old lasts a hundred years.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about spirit, old, olderness
After three years even a disaster can be good for something.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about disaster, good, good luck
May you live up to one hundred years and i up to ninety-nine.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about contentment
Your years will still remain the same whether you laugh or cry.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about contentment
There are old men of three years old and children of a hundred.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about children, man, old, olderness
The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about conduct, prestige
If you are going to sit on it for three years, the seat will certainly get warm.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about contentment
Feed a dog for three days and it is gratefull for three years. Feed a cat for three years and it forgets after three days.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about day
Three years will eradicate even murderous thoughts.
Proverbs and old sayings Korean
