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Eight Proverbs
If there is a lid that doesn't fit, then there is a lid that does. To a person that does not wander, there is not enlightenment. Fall seven times, stand up eight.
Japanese Proverb
The matchmaker always asks for too much money for his eight hundred lies.
Japanese Proverb
The lazy servant takes eight steps to avoid one.
Portuguese Proverb
A man fails seven times and rises eight times.
Mongolian Proverb
A capon eight months old is fit for a king's table.
Spanish Proverb
A woman's appetite is twice that of a man's; her sexual desire, four times; her intelligence, eight times.
Sanskrit Proverb
Eight Immortals cross the sea, each employing his or her theurgy.
Chinese Proverb
Eight lives for the men and nine for the women.
Irish Proverb
A capon eight months old is fit for a king's table.
Portuguese Proverb
Six hours sleep for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.
Italian Proverb
It's a good marriage when he's twenty eight and she's eighteen.
Sicilian Proverb
One can lose four and eight.
Kikuyu Proverb
The lazy servant to save one step takes eight.
Spanish Proverb
There is only eight years between success and failure in politics.
English Proverb
Others have only one anxiety, but I have eight anxieties.
Tamil Proverb
Eight [homonym 'careful attention' and 'eight'] is more than a thousand.
Dutch Proverb
One can lose four and eight.
Bajan Proverb
May your reign Continue for a thousand, eight thousand generations, Until the pebbles Grow into boulders Lush with moss.
Japanese Proverb