Famous Proverbs
184 Proverbs about Allow / Page 8
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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows: he breathes but does not live.72.
If you want to drown yourself, don't torture yourself with shallow water.73.
A bird that allows itself to be caught will find a way of escaping.74.
In shallow waters, shrimps make fools of dragons.75.
Measure your throat before you swallow a bone.76.
Only one who can swallow an insult is a man.77.
The human heart is never satisfied, just like the snake that wants to swallow an elephant.78.
The tongue of a woman is the sword that is never allowed to rust.79.
The water that a ship sails on is the same water that swallows it up.80.
There were once three brothers: a lie, theft and the gallows.