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A tree of your height cannot shade you.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

You may climb a thorn tree, and be unable to come down.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

Found a nice tree when your axe broken.

Proverbs and old sayings Thai

Don't spoil a cool place under the hospitable tree.

Proverbs and old sayings Thai

Without an ax no tree can be cut down.

Proverbs and old sayings Tibetan

A tree that has grown bent for thirty years cannot be straightened in one year.

Proverbs and old sayings

Fruit of a tree falls near its roots.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish

They throw stones at a tree with fruit.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish

The tree branch should be cut off before it becomes a limb.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish

It is worms which destroy a tree, it is worry which destroys a man.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish about worry, destruction, man

You can find no pomegranates on a willow tree, nor shame in the wicked.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish about shame, contentment

Even the mightest eagle comes down to the tree tops to rest.

Proverbs and old sayings Ugandan about rest

Even the mightiest eagle comes down to the tree tops to rest.

Proverbs and old sayings Ugandan about rest

Old men sit in the shade because they planted a tree many years before.

Proverbs and old sayings Ugandan about man, old, olderness

The nut doesn't reveal the tree it contains.

Proverbs and old sayings

The plum tree, dwindling, contains less of the spring; But the garden is wider, and holds more of the moon.

Proverbs and old sayings about spring, moon, garden

When the tree falls, any child can climb it.

Proverbs and old sayings Vietnamese about children

A bird in hand is worth ten in a tree.

Proverbs and old sayings Yemenite

No one can uproot the tree which God has planted.

Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian about god

A fruit tree that grows in a dung heap will certainly blossom.

Proverbs and old sayings Zulu