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It is no use waiting for your ship to come in unless you have sent one out.
Belgian Proverb
A boy isn't sent to collect the honey.
Kenyan Proverb
If a child is not well-behaved, she is not sent by the mother to go alone to the market to buy things for her.
Nigerian Proverb
Who eats bread with barley porridge will be sent to siberia.
Estonian Proverb
Gentility, sent to market, will not buy a peck of meal.
Dutch Proverb
One sent by a woman does not fear death.
Amharic Proverb
A man who was always complaining was quite rightly sent to hell.
Arabic Proverb
God sent him meat, but the devil cooked it.
Dutch Proverb
God wanted to chastise mankind, so he sent lawyers.
Russian Proverb