Giant silk cotton trees grow out of very tiny seeds.
Proverbs and old sayings
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You cannot make a silk purse of a sow's ear.
Proverbs and old sayings German about contentment
With patience and time the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
Proverbs and old sayings German about salary, patience, time
A silk dress doesn't mean clean undergarments.
Proverbs and old sayings Hatian
Put silk on a goat and it is still a goat.
Proverbs and old sayings Irish
If you put a silk suit on a goat it is still a goat.
Proverbs and old sayings Irish about contentment
If you put a silk dress on a goat, he is a goat still.
Proverbs and old sayings Irish about contentment
To get silk from a stone.
Proverbs and old sayings
Although a monkey be dressed in silk, she is still a monkey.
Proverbs and old sayings Mexican
Although the monkey might dress in silk, monkey it still is.
Proverbs and old sayings
He that has not silver in his purse should have silk on his tongue.
Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian
Ye cannot make a silk purse of a sows lug.
Proverbs and old sayings
Ye canna make a silk purse of a sow's lug.
Proverbs and old sayings Scottish
Whoever cultivates clay, harvests silk.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian
Go to Catania for beautiful silk jackets.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian
A monkey remains a monkey, though dressed in silk.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish
He who has daughters to marry, let him give them silk to spin.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish
If you gently touch a nettle it'll sting you for your pains; grasp it like a lad of mettle, an' as soft as silk remains.
Proverbs and old sayings about contentment
