When one door shuts, another opens. 
Proverbs on a similar topic
- The voice of the people, the voice of God.
- One swallow does not make a summer.
- A fly in the ointment.
- One and none is all one.
- There is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
- Hares may pull dead lions by the beard.
- One scabbed sheep will mar a whole flock.
- A great ship asks deep waters.
- For one that is missing there's no spoiling a wedding.
- One flower makes no garland.
- The rotten apple injures its neighbours.
- When the tree is fallen, every one runs to it with his axe.
- Eagles catch no flies.
- In a long journey straw weighs.
- Dead dogs bite not.
Related proverbs
Similar proverbs in another language
French
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Une de perdue, dix de retrouvées.
One lost, ten found.
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Il y a plus d'un âne à la foire qui s'appelle Martin.
There's more than one donkey at the fair named Martin.
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Croûte de pâté vaut bien pain.
Pate crust is as good as bread.
German
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Es gibt mehr als eine bunte Kuh.
There is more than one colorful cow.
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Es ist mehr als ein Esel, der Martin heißt.
It is more than a donkey called Martin.
Czech
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Pro jedno kvítí slunce nesvítí.
For one flower the sun does not shine.
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Není světlo jenom v oknách, za okny ho ještě více.
There is not only light in the windows, there is even more light outside the windows.
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Ne jeden vítr vždycky věje.
Not one wind always blows.
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Pro jednoho osla tráva nevyrostla.
For one donkey the grass did not grow.
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Pro jednoho osla jsem nevyrostla.
I didn't grow up for one donkey.