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What is the difference between an oak tree and a tight shoe?

One makes acorns, the other makes corns ache.

Riddles

Though a tree grow ever so high, the falling leaves return to the ground.

Proverbs and old sayings Guatemalan

Do not cut down the tree that gives you shade.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about contentment

Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree.

Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian

A tree starts with a seed.

Proverbs and old sayings

Evil enters like a splinter and spreads like an oak tree.

Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian

A straight tree never lasts in the forest

Proverbs and old sayings

I have a beautiful tree with the branches downAnd the root up. The man

Riddles

If you have never seen the bottom of the tree, you cannot know how tall it stands

Proverbs and old sayings British about contentment, old, olderness

The apple does not fall/never falls far from the tree

Proverbs and old sayings British about fall, old, olderness

Every tree feels the force of the wind.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about force, police

A tree doesn't move unless there is wind.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan

A tree does not move unless there is wind.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan

The tree will not sway without a trace of wind.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan

As long as there is no wind, the tree won't blow.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan

A palm tree growing in the shade will not bear ripe fruit.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan

The squirrel can beat the rabbit climbing a tree, but then the rabbit makes the best stew that sort of equalizes the thing.

Proverbs and old sayings about things, americans

A tree is known by its fruit.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

A small shrub may grow into a tree.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

The axe forgets. The tree remembers.

Proverbs and old sayings West African