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
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He sticks out of the line.
Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian
The nail sticks out of the sack.
Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian
An accomplishment sticks to a person.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about people
The nail that sticks out is hammered down.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese
The nail that sticks up gets hammered down.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese
The nail that sticks its head up is the one that gets hit.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about heads
A guest sticks a nail in the wall even if he stays but one night.
Proverbs and old sayings Polish about night
You could even hew sticks on head.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian about heads, contentment
Fools should have no chappin sticks.
Proverbs and old sayings
Fools shou'd na hae chapping sticks.
Proverbs and old sayings Scottish
A man is a man to the extent that he sticks by his word.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about word, man
The last partridge to rise gets the most sticks thrown at it.
Proverbs and old sayings
A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about progress
The nail that sticks out is hammered down. [More about the need for conformity than about tools, although conformity is a tool of society. ]
Proverbs and old sayings about tools, society, need
The goose goes so often into the kitchen, till at last she sticks to the spit.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about kitchen
When they came to shoe the horse of the sultan, along comes the beetle and sticks out her foot.
Proverbs and old sayings Lebanese
