Search in folklore: line

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You never know a line is zigzag until you put a straight line against it.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment

You can't catch fish on a dry line.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about trap, fishing, americans, contentment

The shortest distance between two points is a straight line.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans

Declare your line of conduct without reticence.

Proverbs and old sayings Egyptian about conduct

He steps out of the line.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

He sticks out of the line.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

A pestle upon a peg, and a mortar upon a clothes line.

Proverbs and old sayings about clothes

To die in the line of duty is the hope of every Klingon.

Proverbs and old sayings about duty, hope, death

Hunger goes in a straight line, desire turns in circles.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about hunger

Nobility follows the man's line at a wedding.

Proverbs and old sayings Swedish about marriage, man

He that keeps another man's dog shall have nothing left him but the line.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about nothing, man

Basketeer who makes a basket makes a hundred if he's given line and time.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about time

If you've seeded before a heavy rain, one out of one hundred of your plants will be out of line, but if you wait and seed later, one out of one hundred will take.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about rain, contentment