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A bird in your hand is worth more than 100 in the forest.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

A bit of fragrance clings to the hand that gives flowers.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about flowers

The scent of a rose will always stay on the hand of the giver.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives you roses.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about contentment

A bit of fragrance always sticks to the hand that gives you roses.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about contentment

Flowers leave some of their fragrance in the hand that bestows them.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about flowers

When you lift your hand to strike, you are three-tenths lower than your opponent.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about contentment

The path of duty lies in what is near at hand, but men seek for it in what is remote.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about duty, man

Olive flowers in June, olives in the hand.

Proverbs and old sayings about flowers

Weddings and widowings are by the hand of destiny.

Proverbs and old sayings about destiny

One hand washes the other, both hands wash the face.

Proverbs and old sayings about face

Better a sparrow in the hand than a pigeon on the roof.

Proverbs and old sayings Czech

A stepmother has a hard hand.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

Lilies are whitest in a blackmoor's hand.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

A clean hand moves freely through the land.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

The bird once out of hand is hard to recover.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

It is a bad hand that refuses to guard the head.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about heads, bad luck, bad

He who is fed by another's hand seldom gets enough.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

One hand must wash the other, or both will be dirty.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

One bird in the hand is better than two on the roof.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish