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Months Proverbs
A wretched year has twenty-four months.
Lebanese Proverb
A man's servant can live for a hundred years; the slave of a woman dies in six months.
Persian Proverb
Even when months and days are long, life is short.
Japanese Proverb
It takes nine months to have a baby, no matter how many people you put on the job.
American Proverb
If you would be rich in a year, you may be hanged in six months.
Italian Proverb
A capon eight months old is fit for a king's table.
Spanish Proverb
Sorrow for the death of a father lasts six months; sorrow for a mother, a year; sorrow for a wife, until another wife; sorrow for a son, forever.
Sanskrit Proverb
13 festivals in 12 months.
Bengali Proverb
A capon eight months old is fit for a king's table.
Portuguese Proverb
In a good word there are three winters' warmth; in one malicious word there is pain for six frosty months.
Mongolian Proverb
Don't sleep on the ground during those months that are spelled with an r.
Sicilian Proverb
The new moon of March rules for six months.
Sicilian Proverb
After nine months the secret comes out.
Yiddish Proverb
He who wants to be rich in a year is hanged at six months' end.
French Proverb
In New England we have nine months of winter and three months of darned poor sledding.
Vermont Proverb
Sorrow for the death of a father lasts six months; sorrow for a mother, a year; sorrow for a wife, until another wife; sorrow for a son, forever.
Asian-indian Proverb