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If the young palm tree wants to stay alive, it grows next to the odum tree.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan

A woman is like a rat: even if it grows up in your house, it steals from you.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about home, house, woman, contentment

When the devil grows poor he becomes a tax collector.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek about devil

A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek about society, man, old, olderness

A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek about society, man, old, olderness

A harvest of peace grows from seeds of contentment.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about contentment, peace

More grows in a tilled field than is sown in it.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

When a heifer is far from home she grows longer horns.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about home

A cur's tail grows fast.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about fasting

He that never fails never grows rich.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about wealth

Even the sea. great as it is, grows calm.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

Patience is a flower that grows not in everyone's garden.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about garden, patience

Money grows on the tree of persistence.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about money

The taller the bamboo grows, the lower it bends.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese

Moss grows on a lying stone.

Proverbs and old sayings about lie

Ill weeds grows apace.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

Rumour grows easily enough, but is not easily silenced.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

There grows not the herb, which can protect against the power of death.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about power, death

Love is like young rice: transplanted, still it grows.

Proverbs and old sayings about love

Love is just like rice -- plant it elsewhere and it grows.

Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about love