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Instruction in youth is like engraving in stones.

Proverbs and old sayings Columbian about youth

Check before you bite if it is bread or a stone.

Proverbs and old sayings Croatian about contentment

Throw no stones at a sleeping dog.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

The oft-moved stone gathers no moss.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

A little stone may upset a large cart.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

The wet branch burns better than the dry stone.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

The stone that is not in your way does not bother you.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about contentment

You may get something off a bone, but nothing off a stone.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about nothing, contentment

The stone that everybody spits upon will be wet at the last.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

He who can sit upon a stone and feed himself should not move.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

Almost a hit, said the boy as he threw the stone at his dog and hit his stepmother's leg.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

Eggs should not fight stones.

Proverbs and old sayings about fight

You cannot get blood from a stone.

Proverbs and old sayings about blood, contentment

Hunger eats through stone walls.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about hunger

By labor fire is got out of stone.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about fire, fire brigade

By labour fire is got out of a stone.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about fire, fire brigade

Great gaps may be filled with small stones.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

With hard work, you can get fire out of a stone.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about work, fire, fire brigade, contentment

As ass does not hit himself twice against the same stone.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

If you live in a glass house, don't throw stones.

Proverbs and old sayings Egyptian about home, house, contentment