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The vulture perches on the trees because it does not feel sure on the groung.

Proverbs and old sayings

You learn how to cut down trees cutting them down.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

If you want apples, you have to shake the trees.

Proverbs and old sayings Bulgarian about contentment

Sometimes you lose a forest through the trees.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about contentment

One generation plants trees, another gets the shade.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

The trees want to remain quiet, but the wind will not stop.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about quiet

To cultivate trees, you need 10 years. To cultivate people, you need 100 years.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about need, people, contentment

Just as tall trees are known by their shadows, so are good men known by their enemies.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about enemies, man, good, good luck

One generation plants the trees, the next eats the fruit.

Proverbs and old sayings

Tall trees catch much wind.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about trap

High trees catch lots of wind.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about trap

High trees give more shadow than fruit.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about shadow

He thinks to catch shell-fish in the trees.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about trap, fishing

Young twigs may be bent, but not old trees.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about old, olderness

He who plants fruit-trees, must not count upon the fruit.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

He that plants trees loves others besides himself.

Proverbs and old sayings English

Men will only throw stones at trees that are laden with fruit.

Proverbs and old sayings French about man

Giant silk cotton trees grow out of very tiny seeds.

Proverbs and old sayings

Old trees are not to be bent.

Proverbs and old sayings German about old, olderness

When it blows, the trees shake.

Proverbs and old sayings German