He who gets close to a good tree, will have a good shade. Swedish Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water. Turkish Measure a thousand times and cut once. No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back. Welsh Adfyd a ddwg wybodaeth, a gwybodaeth doethineb .
Adversity brings knowledge and knowledge, wisdom.
Yiddish Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough, but not baked in the same oven. God couldn't be everywhere, so he created mothers. If all men pulled in one direction, the world would topple over. If you sit in a hot bath, you think the whole town is warm.