828 Traditional Proverbs / Page 26
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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.502.
Opportunity seldom knocks twice.503.
Our passions are the winds that propel our vessel. Our reason is the pilot that steers her. Without winds the vessel would not move and without a pilot she would be lost.504.
Out of debt, out of danger.505.
Out of sight, out of mind.506.
Over no home can the sign be hung: There is no trouble here.507.
Ownership is to fear.508.
Patience is a virtue.509.
Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.510.
Patience, money and time bring all things to past.511.
Pay beforehand if you would have your work poorly done.512.
Penny wise, pound foolish.513.
People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised.514.
People lend only to the rich.515.
People who have bread to eat do not appreciate the severity of a famine.516.
People who have little to do are excessive talkers.517.
Persuasion is better than force.518.
Physicians' faults are covered with earth, and rich men's with money.519.
Plaster thick, some will stick.520.
Possession is nine points of the law.