To pound water with a mortar is futile.
Proverbs and old sayings about water
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An illness comes by the pound and goes away by the ounce.
Proverbs and old sayings
You can't get rice by pounding bran.
Proverbs and old sayings about contentment
It takes ten pounds of common sense to carry one pound of learning.
Proverbs and old sayings Persian about common sense, sense
One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to apply it.
Proverbs and old sayings Persian about common sense, sense
Those who are born to pennies never make it to pounds.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese
A penny at a pinch is worth a pound.
Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian
An ounce of fortune is worth a pound of forecast.
Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about wealth
Mischief comes by the pound and goes away by the ounce.
Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian
An ill win penny will cast down a pound.
Proverbs and old sayings
An ounce of mother-wit, is worth a pound of clergie.
Proverbs and old sayings about mother
Don't be penny wise and pound foolish.
Proverbs and old sayings Scottish
A pound o' care will no pay an ounce of debt.
Proverbs and old sayings Scottish
Who pounds the water in the mortar, will get wet with the drops and will end up tired.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about end, water
By pounding the dough the bread will rise.
Proverbs and old sayings
An ounce of state to a pound of gold.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about state
God take you, pound, drunk out and not yet spun.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about god, contentment
God take you, pound (of flax), drunk out and not yet spun.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about god, contentment
An ounce of wit that's bought Is worth a pound that's taught.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish
Whether you boil snow or pound it you can have but water of it.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about water, contentment
