A bow too much bent is broken.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin
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Let us sit bent, but talk straight.
Proverbs and old sayings Moroccan
A bow long bent at last waxes weak.
Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian
The heart is not a knee that can be bent.
Proverbs and old sayings about heart
The bow that is always bent slackens or breaks.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish
Trust not your money to one whose eyes are bent on the ground.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about eyes, money
A tree that has grown bent for thirty years cannot be straightened in one year.
Proverbs and old sayings
The green twig is easily bent.
Proverbs and old sayings Turkish
The course of a river is not to be altered. [We cannot alter a natural bent. ]
Proverbs and old sayings Latin
It is soon known which trees will bear fruit. [A natural bent for good or evil is easily perceptible in youth. ]
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about youth, good, good luck
A diplomat should be yielding and supple as a creeper that can be bent but not broken.
Proverbs and old sayings Guatemalan
Before it's ready to eat the fig must be mature, dripping, with a bent neck and a thin skin.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian
