Famous Proverbs
489 Proverbs about Gain / Page 44
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Many a friend was lost through a joke, but none was ever gained so.432.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.433.
I against my brother, I and my brother against our cousin, I, my brother and our cousin against the neighbors, All of us against the foreigner.434.
He who has been angry becomes cool again.435.
If you stab out the eye of thy neighbor cut off two finger and dip them in honey. Cook them in lemon curd and present them to his family in a pigeon pie. If they dine on a full moon his eye will sprout again from it's socket.436.
Knowledge is gained in many schools.437.
If only the wind would turn before I go home, said the woman rowing against the wind.438.
A bird that you set free may be caught again, but a word that escapes your lips will not return.439.
People are like plants in the wind: they bow down and rise up again.440.
If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.