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You can't squeeze blood from a rock.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about rocks, blood, contentment

Caught between a rock and a hard place.

Proverbs and old sayings Polish about rocks

Soft water on hard rock, beats so much that it perforates it.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about rocks, water

I have another tow on my rock.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about rocks

It's as true as Biglam's cat crew, and the cock rock'd the cradle.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about rocks

A rock offered by a friend is like an apple.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about rocks

Love is the rock of youth and the shoal of old age.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about rocks, olderness, youth, age, love, old

When you have touched a woman, you have struck a rock.

Proverbs and old sayings about rocks, woman, contentment

The bird that pecks at a rock trusts in the strength of its beak.

Proverbs and old sayings Ugandan about rocks

Man is harder than rock and more fragile than an egg.

Proverbs and old sayings Yugoslavian about rocks, man

There are three things that are too amazing for me, four that I do not understand: the way of an eagle in the sky, the way of a snake on a rock, the way of a ship on the high seas, and the way of a man with a maiden.

Proverbs and old sayings about rocks, sky, things, man

Slander cannot destroy an honest man: when the flood recedes the rock is there.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about destruction, rocks, man

Better to have a diamond with a few small flaws than a rock that is perfect.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about rocks, perfection

Who will not be ruled by the rudder must be ruled by the rock.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about rocks

He that winna be ruled by the rudder maun be ruled by the rock.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about rocks

He who won't be ruled by the rudder must be ruled by the rock.

Proverbs and old sayings about rocks

It is a thief that can trace the footsteps of another thief on a rock.

Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian about thieves, rocks

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about rocks, god

The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world

Proverbs and old sayings British about rocks, rules, world, old, olderness