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There is a proverb my grandmother used to repeat: Old sins have long shadows. — Agatha Christie

As the old proverb says: Well-fed horses don't rampage. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The old proverb, applied to fire and water, may with equal truth be applied to the imagination - it is a good servant, but a bad master. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

It was an old kender proverb - Don't change color to match the walls. Look like you belong and the walls will change color to match you. — Margaret Weis

The most difficult battles in life are those we fight within. - Old Chinese Proverb — Camron Wright

There's a Chinese proverb that says it all: Painting is an old man's art. — David Hockney

Train up a child in such a way she or he should go; even when she or he is old she or he will not depart' Proverb — Santosh Avvannavar

But now I see well the old proverb is true: That parish priest forgetteth that ever he was a clerk! — John Heywood

An old Croatian proverb Adam had learned in college applied here: The hunchback sees the hump of others - never his own. — Harlan Coben

Plant an expectation; reap a disappointment. (Quoting an old adage) — Elizabeth Gilbert

There's an old German proverb to the effect that "fear makes the wolf bigger than he is," and that is true. — Donald J. Trump

When a bird flies too high, it loses its song. -- Old Chinese Proverb — Rebecca Yount

There is also an old proverb, that they who pay much attention to the body generally neglect the soul. — John Calvin

I thought of the old proverb: Where there are three physicians, there are two atheists. — Regina O'Melveny

This is the derivation of that old Yankee proverb that if you can sell a book, you can move sixty tons of weaponry three hundred miles in winter — Sarah Vowell

There is an old Burmese proverb: "When it rains, collect water. — Hillary Rodham Clinton

Quoting an old proverb: "An empty cart rattles loudly." she said. meaning, One who lacks substance boasts loudest. — Alan Brennert

As the old French proverb warns: He who fears to suffer suffers from fear. — Debra Ollivier

There is an old Chinese proverb: 'A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses. — Ashwin Sanghi

You know that African proverb 'When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground'? When Alice dies," Tom said, "it will be like a library burning. — Marja Mills

Old Burmese (now Myanmar) proverb: Burmese proverb: Government is one of the five evils along with fire, floods, thieves and enemies. — Jeffrey Friedland

Tell the truth and . . .run!"
Old Croatian proverb — Teresa Toten

There's an old Celtic proverb that I follow: See much, study much, suffer much is the path to wisdom. — Greg Jackson

An old Ukrainian proverb warns, "A tale that begins with a beet will end with the devil." That is a risk we have to take. — Tom Robbins

He remembered the old Chinese proverb, sometimes ascribed to Confucius: If you sit by the river for long enough, the body of your enemy will float by. — Salman Rushdie

Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy. — Stephen King

There is no fool like an old fool. — American Proverb.

An old fool is worse than a young one: For the young may always grow wise. (Zohair) — Idries Shah

The old proverb was now made good, the mountain had brought forth a mouse. — Plutarch

The lion and the lamb may lie down together, but the lamb won't get much sleep. - An old desert proverb — Melissa McPhail

An old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb — Chinua Achebe

You are never too old to learn. — American Proverb.

Like, according to the old proverb, naturally goes with like. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

There's an old Japanese proverb - to wait for luck is the same as waiting for one's death. We make our own luck, my old friend." "I — David Leadbeater

The old Chinese proverb springs to mind - No pain, no gain. — Marian Keyes