Famous Proverbs
266 Proverbs about Wish / Page 25
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A shrew gets her wish but suffers in the getting.242.
When a father helps a son, both smile; but when a son must help his father, both cry.243.
If you wish to die young, make your physician your heir.244.
A bad wife wishes her husband's heel turned homewards, and not his toe.245.
Wish thy friend joy of his journey, but pray in secret that he have no joy, for then may he return quickly to thee.246.
When they wish to eat a vulture, they call it a guinea fowl.247.
If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.248.
If you wish to know what a man is, make him king.249.
A slave shows his true character, not while he is enslaved but when he becomes a master.250.
What one has, one doesn't want, and what one wants, one doesn't have.