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I would rather be in an apple-tree, than a bad man in distress.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about bad luck, bad, man

When the tree is fallen, every one goeth to it with his hatchet.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

As the tree is known by its fruit, so is the wicked man by his deeds.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about deeds, man

Though the palm tree in the jungle is big, who knows how big its yield will be?

Proverbs and old sayings Liberian

Only when the tree is big and strong can you tether a cow to it.

Proverbs and old sayings Liberian about contentment

It is difficult to teach a cow to climb a tree.

Proverbs and old sayings Lithuanian

In a very old tree, you may be certain that the sapwood is on the outside, while the heartwood is in the middle.

Proverbs and old sayings about old, olderness, contentment

Do not measure up the wood before the tree is cut down.

Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about measure

When a dead tree falls, the woodpeckers profit from his death.

Proverbs and old sayings Guatemalan about death

Though a tree grows ever so high, the falling leaves return to its roots.

Proverbs and old sayings Guatemalan

Though a tree grows so high, the falling leaves return to the root.

Proverbs and old sayings Malaysian

Malta would be a nice place, if every knight were a tree.

Proverbs and old sayings Maltese

A rich man without liberality is like a tree without fruit.

Proverbs and old sayings about wealth, man

Not all the flowers of a tree produce fruit.

Proverbs and old sayings about flowers

Not all the tree's blossoms will bear fruit.

Proverbs and old sayings

Everyone makes firewood of a fallen tree.

Proverbs and old sayings Mexican

Everyone stones the tree that bears fruit.

Proverbs and old sayings Mexican

From the fallen tree everyone makes firewood.

Proverbs and old sayings Mexican

On a dead tree there are no monkeys.

Proverbs and old sayings

A good tree can lodge ten thousand birds.

Proverbs and old sayings about good, good luck