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When the fields are flooded you'll have hunger, when they're snow covered there'll be plenty to eat.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about hunger, contentment

Ebb does not follow ebb -- flood is in between.

Proverbs and old sayings

If you find the river flooded, wait.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

Eyes can see widely: They can cross a river in full flood.

Proverbs and old sayings about eyes

If the world is flooded, it will be easy for the duck.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish about world

Don't lie down in low places, flood will take you, don't lie down in high places, wind will take you.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish about lie, contentment

Three things it is best to avoid a strange dog, a flood, and a man who thinks he is wise.

Proverbs and old sayings Welsh about things, man

It rained on the mountaintop, but it was the valley below that got flooded.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

Love has its tides; before ebb tide you must take advantage of the flood.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about love, contentment

It's better to return from the centre of the ford than drown in the flood.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

Let your love be like the misty rain, coming softly, but flooding the river.

Proverbs and old sayings Liberian about rain, love

Let your love be like the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river.

Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about love

Let what is on this side of the bank be washed out by the flood, and what is on that side of the bank be carried away by the wind.

Proverbs and old sayings about bankers