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Traveling is a return to the essentials.
Tibetan Proverb
A bird that you set free may be caught again, but a word that escapes your lips will not return.
Jewish Proverb
Receive a plum, return a peach.
Vietnamese Proverb
If you return an ass's kick, most of the pain is yours.
Cuban Proverb
When you return from a trip, bring back something for your family - even if it is only a stone.
Lebanese Proverb
One who drinks from the nile must return.
Egyptian Proverb
We are all flesh and blood of the earth and so will return to the ground as rotten maggot encrusted relics.
Togolese Proverb
A child one does not instruct on return, one instructs him when going.
Bantu Proverb
Take one, not that you may return with ten.
Swahili Proverb
Fallen blossoms do not return to branches; a broken mirror does not again reflect.
Japanese Proverb
The strong will protect the weak and, in return, the weak will serve the strong.
Japanese Proverb
Though a tree grow ever so high, the falling leaves return to the ground.
Malay Proverb
No river can return to its source, yet all rivers must have a beginning.
American Proverb
Send a fool to the market, and a fool he'll return.
American Proverb
Who accepts nothing has nothing to return.
German Proverb
It's better to return from the centre of the ford than drown in the flood.
Irish Proverb
He who does many bad deeds can expect a big one in return.
Italian Proverb
Do not expect good in return for a good deed.
Hungarian Proverb
The best gifts are those which expect no return.
Norwegian Proverb
When you go, the road is rough; when you return, smooth.
Thai Proverb
No matter how much you feed a wolf, he will always return to the forest.
Russian Proverb
Neither shall the wave, which has passed on, ever be recalled; nor can the hour, which has once fled by, return again.
Latin Proverb
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