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Passing Proverbs
If summer had a mother, she would weep at summer's passing.
Lebanese Proverb
Lower your head modestly while passing, and you will harvest bananas.
African Congo Proverb
Little and lasting is better than much and passing.
Moroccan Proverb
Listen to all, 'plucking a feather from every passing goose,' but follow no one absolutely.
Chinese Proverb
Never give up your own old mat for a better prayer mat which you see passing.
Swahili Proverb
In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
Danish Proverb
All weather is passing.
Norwegian Proverb
Where there is a hippopotamus, be careful when passing with a pirogue.
Nilotic Proverb
We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love... and then we return home.
Australian Aboriginal Proverb
A man of high principles is someone who can watch a chess game without passing comment.
Chinese Proverb
If you close your eyes because of the bad people around you, you will not see the good people passing by.
African Proverb
Where there is a hippopotamus, be careful when passing with a pirogue.
African Proverb
Time is a river of passing events - a rushing torrent.
Greek Proverb
You cannot prevent the birds of sadness from passing over your head, but you can prevent them from nesting in your hair.
Swedish Proverb
Like the seaweed that clings to each other after each passing boat separates them, so too a family will come together with the passing of each crisis.
Indonesian Proverb
The hour is passing.
Latin Proverb
Passing the Rubicon. When he arrived at the banks of the Rubicon, which divides Cisalpine Gaul from the rest of Italy ... he stopped to deliberate.... At last he cried out: "The die is cast" and immediately passed the river.
English Proverb
Man is like a breath, his days like a passing shadow.
Jewish Proverb