An error no wider than a hair will lead a hundred miles away from the goal.
Proverbs and old sayings German about purpose, error
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Gray hair is a sign of age, not wisdom.
Proverbs and old sayings Greek about age, olderness, wisdom
Gray hair is a sign of age, not of wisdom.
Proverbs and old sayings Greek about age, olderness, wisdom
A drowning man takes hold of his own hair.
Proverbs and old sayings Greek about man
Long hair, short wit.
Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian
The bite of a dog is healed by the hair of it.
Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian
Better wise language than well combed hair.
Proverbs and old sayings Icelandic about language
A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a hair.
Proverbs and old sayings
More hair than tit, like a mountain heifer.
Proverbs and old sayings Irish
A hair on the head is worth two on the brush.
Proverbs and old sayings Irish about heads
A hair of the dog cures the bite.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian
A dog never bit me but I had some of his hair.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian
When a bald man dies the mourners give him curly hair as a present.
Proverbs and old sayings about present, man
It hangs by a hair.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin
Even a hair hath its shadow.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about shadow
The wolf changes his hair, but not his nature.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about nature
What though his hair be gray, his mind is no less vigorous than ever.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about mind
Opportunity has hair in front, behind she is bald; if you seize her by the forelock, you may hold her, but, if suffered to escape, not Jupiter himself can catch her again.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about chance, trap, contentment
Wealth is like hair in the nose: it hurts to be separated whether from a little or from a lot.
Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about wealth
Women have got long hair and short sense.
Proverbs and old sayings Maltese about common sense, sense
