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Who is a piece of stick in youth will be a block of wood in old age.

Proverbs and old sayings Estonian about olderness, youth, age, old

That dog yelps, which stick hits.

Proverbs and old sayings Finnish

The walking-stick reaches many lands, the word many more.

Proverbs and old sayings Finnish about word

It is the dog which is hit by the tossed stick, which yelps.

Proverbs and old sayings Finnish

With a walking-stick you reach many lands; you reach many more with words.

Proverbs and old sayings Finnish about word, contentment

A stick is a peacemaker.

Proverbs and old sayings French

A crooked stick will have a crooked shadow.

Proverbs and old sayings French about shadow

Slander! slander! some of it always sticks.

Proverbs and old sayings French

Where the wasp has passed the fly sticks fast.

Proverbs and old sayings French about fasting

He that leaves certainty and sticks to chance, When fools pipe he may dance.

Proverbs and old sayings French about chance, dance

A lot will stick to dirty hands.

Proverbs and old sayings German

He sticks his nose in everything.

Proverbs and old sayings German

The stick that breaks the window does not kill a dog.

Proverbs and old sayings Gypsy about gypsies

In the village without dogs the farmers walk without sticks.

Proverbs and old sayings Gypsy about gypsies

Poverty is a wonderful thing. It sticks to a man after all his friends have forsaken him.

Proverbs and old sayings about poverty, things, man

He sticks out of the line.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

The nail sticks out of the sack.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

They match as a stick in a quiver.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

God does not beat one with a stick.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian about god

The head of each stick is at its end.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian about heads, end