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The grass looks greener on the other side of the fence.

Do not put a grass turban on my head.

One who has been bitten by a snake, when he sees grass he he gets afraid.

After the rain the grass will grow; after wine, conversation.

Ride an elephant to catch a grasshopper.

Where conceit and ignorance sit, grass will not grow again.

Without wind, the ears of the grass do not move.

When two elephants fight the grass gets trampled.

I, the adhesive grass, will stick fast to you.

Sit quiety, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by itself.

Morning has broken:

Morning has broken, like the first morning,
Blackbird has spoken, like the first bird.
Praise for the singing, praise for the morning,
Praise for them springing fresh from the word.

Sweet the rain's new fall,...

Traditional Wexford Curse

May the grass grow at your door and the fox build his nest on your hearthstone.
May the light fade from your eyes, so you never see what you love.
May your own blood rise against you, and the sweetest drink you...

If you want to fight fire, you don't wear a skirt made of dry grass.

A hungry man will thrust his fingers into a snake's hole in search of a grasshopper.

When a lion cannot find the flesh to feed on, it has no choice but to eat the grass.

When an elephant eats and eats and still cries for more, it is the grass that will get embarrassed.

A people without history is like wind on the buffalo grass. Sioux

Even if you are cunning, you will not tie water up in a bale of grass.

What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset..

Once bitten by an adder, you will never walk through the high grass again.