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Against a thousand crows one stone is enough.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

He moves all the stones, to achieve something.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

Like Barnard, he tries to catch the heavens stone.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian about trap

He has stirred up, or threw a stone into, still water.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian about water

If a stone was thrown at you, throw back some bread in return.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian about contentment

A fool may throw a stone into a well which a hundred wise cannot take out.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

A dog bites the stone, not him who throws it.

Proverbs and old sayings Icelandic

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about anger

If you throw a handful of stones, one at least will hit.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about contentment

You do not stumble over a mountain, but you do over a stone.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about contentment

A blind man sat behind a pile of stones and thought that nobody could see him.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about thinking, blind, man

A stone thrown at the right time is better than gold given at the wrong time.

Proverbs and old sayings about time, bad, rightness

You kissed the blarney stone.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about contentment

Castles were built a stone at a time.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about time

A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it gets a great shine.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

He thinks that he himself is the very stone that was hurled at the castle.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

A drop of water breaks a stone.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about water

A little stone overturns a great cart.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

Hard with hard makes not the stone wall.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

He is not a good mason who refuses any stone.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about good, good luck