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1601 Women in mischief are wiser than men. -English Proverb
1602 Words must be weighed, not counted. -Polish Proverb
1603 Words pay no debts.
1604 Worries go better with soup than without. -Yiddish Proverb
1605 Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow. -Swedish Proverb
1606 You can not write in the chimney with charcoal. -Russian Proverb
1607 You can take a horse to the water but you cannot make him drink.
1608 You cannot eat your cake and have it.
1609 You cannot flay the same ox twice.
1610 You cannot judge a tree by it bark.
1611 You cannot teach old dogs new tricks.
1612 You cannot wash charcoal white.
1613 You can't force anyone to love you or lend you money. -Jewish Proverb
1614 You can't make pancakes without breaking eggs. -Spanish Proverb
1615 You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. -Navajo Proverb
1616 You made your bed, now lie in it.
1617 You may laugh at a friend's roof; don't laugh at his sleeping accomodation. -Kenyan Proverb
1618 You must climb the mountain if you would see the plain. -Chinese Proverb
1619 Young people tell what they are doing, old people what they have done and fools what they wish to do. -French Proverb
1620 Young pigs grunt as as old pigs grunted before them. -Danish Proverb
1621 Your friend has a friend; don't tell him. -Jewish Proverb
1622 You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. -Irish Proverb
1623 Za dvumya zaitsami pogonish'sya, ne odnogo ne poimaesh'. (If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one.) -Russian Proverb
1624 Zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse.
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