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He who starts singing too high will never finish the song.

Proverbs and old sayings German about end

Asses sing badly, because they pitch their voices too high.

Proverbs and old sayings German

However high you lift the kid goat, you place it gently on the ground.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about contentment

Come hell or high water.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian about hell, water

God has taken him to a high position.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian about god

He who climbs high, has a great fall.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian about fall

He shoots at sparrows with a, high calibre, gun.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

Look high and fall low.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about fall

Where passion is high, reason is low.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about reason

He who climbs to high is near a fall.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about fall

You will often see a high collar above an empty stomach.

Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican about contentment

Mountains are not esteemed because they are high, but because they have trees.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese

Don't be frightened at high-sounding words.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about word

Nothing answers worse than too high farming.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about nothing

Doth the moon on high care for the barking of a dog?

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about moon

You ask the path when the high road is before your eyes.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about eyes, contentment

Low is the mountain, high the expectations.

Proverbs and old sayings Guatemalan

Though a tree grows ever so high, the falling leaves return to its roots.

Proverbs and old sayings Guatemalan

Though a tree grows so high, the falling leaves return to the root.

Proverbs and old sayings Malaysian

No matter how high the squirrel jumps, it will eventually fall onto the ground.

Proverbs and old sayings Malaysian about fall