One hair from the head of a woman pulls more than a ship's hauser.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about heads, woman
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When a single hair has fallen from your head, you are not yet bald.
Proverbs and old sayings about heads, contentment
Another's care hangs by a hair.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish
A hair casts its shadow on the ground.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about shadow
The bad barber leaves neither hair nor skin.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about bad luck, bad
That was on the hair.
Proverbs and old sayings Swedish
A single hair hides the mountain in the distance.
Proverbs and old sayings Thai
Don't notice the tiny flea in the other person's hair and overlook the lumbering yak on your own nose.
Proverbs and old sayings Tibetan about people
The bald woman boasts of her sister's hair.
Proverbs and old sayings Tunisian about woman
Having grey hair because of old age is not a shame.
Proverbs and old sayings Yemenite about olderness, shame, age, old
If you see your brother being scalped, put water on your hair.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about being, water, contentment
When cats are hairdressers, rats will always go around with uncombed hair.
Proverbs and old sayings West African
No matter how tall a camel is, it will never get taller than the hair on its back.
Proverbs and old sayings West African
You cannot stop birds from flying over your head, but you can stop them nesting in your hair.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about heads, contentment
Experience is a comb which fate gives to a man when his hair is all gone.
Proverbs and old sayings South American about destiny, experience, americans, man
You can't keep the birds from flying over your head, but you can keep them from building a nest in your hair.
Proverbs and old sayings South American about heads, americans, contentment
You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about sadness, heads, contentment
Though the bird may fly over your head, let it not make its nest in your hair.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about heads
It is easy to work with a good comb, said the devil, when he combed his mother's hair with a pitchfork.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about work, mother, devil, good, good luck
