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Patience is a bitter plant but it has a sweet fruit.

Proverbs and old sayings German about bitter, patience

As the tree, so the fruit; as the mistress, so the maid.

Proverbs and old sayings German

The hanging fruit is never too heavy for the creeper to bear.

Proverbs and old sayings

Deeds are fruits, words are only leaves.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek about deeds, word

Virtue bears its own fruits.

Proverbs and old sayings about virtue

Like tree, like fruit.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

Forbidden fruit is sweeter.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

Even good tree has, sometimes bad fruit.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian about bad luck, bad, good, good luck

Even the best tree sometimes has bad fruit.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian about bad luck, bad

An udara fruit that falls on the side of the road is asking to be eaten.

Proverbs and old sayings Igbo

An udara fruit that falls by the roadside must want to be picked up and eaten.

Proverbs and old sayings Igbo

He who wants fruit should not pick flowers.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about flowers

September blow soft till the fruit's in the loft.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian

When all fruits fail welcome haws.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

When the fruit is scarcest, its taste is sweetest.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

Forbidden fruit is sweetest.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

Bitter fruit will fall before the ripe.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about bitter, fall

Large trees give more shade than fruit.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

Knowledge has bitter roots but sweet fruits.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about bitter, knowledge

He that would have the fruit, must climb the tree.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian