The family is like the forest: if you are outside, it is dense; if you are inside, you see that each tree has its own position.
Proverbs and old sayings about family, contentment
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God gave the giraffe a long neck so that He would not have to bend the palm tree.
Proverbs and old sayings about god
The elephant that is stuck in the mud will tear down the tree with it.
Proverbs and old sayings Cambodian
By trying repeatedly, the monkey learns how to jump from the tree.
Proverbs and old sayings Cameroonian
To talk much and arrive nowhere is the same as climbing a tree to catch a fish.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about trap, fishing
To forget one's ancestor's is to be a brook without a source, a tree without root.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about ancestors
To forget one's ancestors is to be a brook without a source, a tree without a root.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about ancestors
A flower you plant may not necessarily bloom; but the seed of a tree you happen to drop may grow into a forest.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about garden, contentment
If you want a crop for one year, grow grain; if you want a crop for ten years, grow a tree; if you want a crop for a hundred years, grow men.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about man, contentment
There are three things from which no good can be got without a beating: a walnut-tree, a donkey, and a shrew.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about things, good, good luck
Our time runs on like a stream; first fall the leaves and then the tree.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about fall, time
The higher the mountain the lower the vale, the taller the tree the harder the fall.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about fall
The higher the mountain the lower the valley, the taller the tree the harder the fall.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about fall
If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; if you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.
Proverbs and old sayings English about happiness, garden, life, contentment
Evil penetrates like a needle and then becomes like an oak tree.
Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian
His mouth talks about Sheik Hussein but his hands are stretched up to the tree.
Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian
If the building of a nest were easy, would the little apatipers bird roost in the fork of a tree?
Proverbs and old sayings Afghan
A wayward woman is like the weaver bird. She uses her perch on one tree to scout other trees.
Proverbs and old sayings Igbo about woman
A confused man is like the drowning man who asks for pears from the willow tree.
Proverbs and old sayings about man
The woman who gives birth to a child is like the banana tree that breaks under the weight of its fruit.
Proverbs and old sayings about children, woman
