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When you put your nose into the water your cheeks get wet as well.

Proverbs and old sayings Georgian about water, contentment

Justice has a waxen nose.

Proverbs and old sayings German about justice

He sticks his nose in everything.

Proverbs and old sayings German

Never tickle the nose of a sleeping bear.

Proverbs and old sayings German

He who wipes the child's nose, means to kiss the mother's cheek.

Proverbs and old sayings German about kiss, children, mother

He who puts his nose in a turd does not know what he is smelling.

Proverbs and old sayings German

An unlucky man falls on straw, but splits his nose from a hidden stone.

Proverbs and old sayings about man

He crushes pepper under the nose of somebody.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

He pulls the honeyed string before him or before his nose.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

The nose didn't smell the rotting head.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about heads

The baby is not yet born, and yet you say that his nose is like his grandfather's.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about contentment

An inch is a great deal on a nose.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

It's often a man's mouth broke his nose.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about man

A pig used to dirt turns its nose up at rice.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese

A pig used to dirt turns up his nose at rice.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese

He who blows his nose too hard makes it bleed.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

If you can't use your eyes, follow your nose.

Proverbs and old sayings about use, eyes, 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

The blow is taken on the nose but it's the eyes that cry.

Proverbs and old sayings about eyes

The horse is Turkmen, it eats from both the nose-bag and the manger.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian