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Water Proverbs – 1
In crossing water and giving money, never be the first.
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Water causes neither illness, nor intoxication, nor debts.
Water causes neither sickness, debt, nor widowhood.
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One should not stir up the water one has to drink.
At the end of a thousand years, the water returns to its cask.
Meaning: we always return to our old loves.
Of water what has been poured out, collect what you can.
–Spanish proverbs
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Running water is not harmful to man.
Beware of water that doesn’t run and a cat that doesn’t mew.
Everyone draws water to his own mill and leave the neighbour’s dry.
–Catalonian
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Pure water is the world’s first and foremost medicine.
Everybody drive the watercourse to his own mill.
Slovakian proverb.
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Water will run again where it once ran-Slovenian.
The ends into the water
Meaning :the throwing of vanquished people into the water with stones tied to them Shemyaka in Norgorod: John IV in Norgorod (Part of Russian History). Also called Novgorod.
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Into the sack and into the water
Meaning : the court of Modvins- a tribe living in the east of Europena Russia)
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Downstream the water carries; upstream the necessity
Meaning: Volga boatman. Timber carried downstream; upstream grain which required a team of men.
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Within a Russian hour much water flows
Meaning: ancient calculation off time according to the quantity of water flowing out of container.
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Wherever water flows it will find way.
The more abundantly water gushes from its source, the less is the source esteemed.
Where water has been, there it will be.
Here money once went, there it will go again.
You must drink the water of the river you are travelling on.
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Even if water flows on all directions, the sand will remain at the bottom- Georgian
Water breaks out where it is not expected.
Water for the skin, but wine for the vitals.
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Under water, hunger; under snow, bread.
A glass of water is sometimes worth a tun of wine.
—Italian
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He drinks water by measure. i.e. penny wise and pound foolish.
Water tastes better at the source- Latin
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All water quenches thirst.
To drink pure water, go to the source- Maltese
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There is no stronger drink than water.
Water and fire are good servants but cruel masters-
Montenegrin
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What water gives water takes away- Portuguese
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From the drop of water through the roof, and death
through the door there is no escape – Albanian proverb
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Clean water often comes out of a mucky spout
Meaning- good person may come from a disreputable family.
There is always some water where the heifer drowns.
–English
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Much water flows by unknown to the miller.
Let everyone seek water for his own ship.
The water is shallowest where it babbles.
There is no obstruction but water.
–Welsh
Clear water, peaceful mind.
As long as a man is healthy even water will be a tasty beverage.
Water will run where it ran before.—Bulgarian
If you wade through all waters you will drown in the end—Danish
He who drinks water need not pay for wine-Dutch
Still water – deep bottom—Estonian
—subham—
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