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PROVERBS FROM AROUND THE WORLD

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1.   Truth is more valuable if it takes you a few years to find it.

French

                                                                                    

2  There is no shame in not knowing, the shame lies in not finding out.   

Russia                                                             

 

3.   Coffee and love tastes better when hot.              

Ethiopian

 

4.   The pen is mightier than the sword.                       

 English

 

5.   Fall seven times, stand up eight.                            

Japanese

 

6.   If you can't live longer, live deeper.

Italian

 

7.   It takes a whole village to raise a child.

African

 

8.   Turn your face toward the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

Maori

 

9.   Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

English

 

10.  The tree with the most leaves will not necessarily produce juicy fruit.

Brazilian  

 

11.   Begin the weave and God will give the thread.

German

 

12.   A bird does  not sing because it has an answer.  It sings because it has a song.

Chinese

 

13.   Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one.

Turkish

 

14.   Those who wish to sing always find a song.

Swedish

 

15.   It's not enough to learn how to ride, you must also learn how to fall.

Mexican

 

16.   Hunger is felt by a slave and hunger is felt by a King

Ghanaian

 

17.   The work praises the man.

Irish

 

18.   A mother understands what a child does not say.

Yiddish

 

19.   If you can walk you can dance.  If you can talk you can sing.

Zimbabwe

 

20.   Cheese, wine, and friends must be old to be good.

Cuban

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The moving finger writes; And having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line Nor all your Tears Wash out a Word of it. Omar Khayam
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Re: PROVERBS FROM AROUND THE WORLD

1. It's not a real hangover until you bring a pillow into the bathroom.

   Me

2.  What, me worry?

   Alfred E. Newman

 

@Lindsays Grandma  Sorry, but I just couldn't resist the urge to be silly.

 

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Re: PROVERBS FROM AROUND THE WORLD

Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?