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Hope is an egg of which one man gets the yolk, another the white, and a third the shell.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about hope, man

When lazy horses begin to start, old women to dance, and white clouds to rain, there is no stopping them.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about dance, rain, old, olderness

When a dove begins to fly with crows, its feathers remain white but its heart grows black.

Proverbs and old sayings German about magic, heart

When a dove begins to associate with crows its feathers remain white but its heart grows black.

Proverbs and old sayings German about magic, heart

The black man steals just half of very little, but the white man steals the whole sugar plantation.

Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican about magic, man

Tell your affairs in the market-place, and one will call them black and another white.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about magic, stores

Salt comes from north, gold from south and silver from the land of Whites, but the Word of God, the famous things, histories and fairy tales, we only find them in Timbuktu.

Proverbs and old sayings about fairy tales, word, things, god

Tis better to buy a small bouquet And give to your friend this very day, Than a bushel of roses white and red To lay on his coffin after he's dead.

Proverbs and old sayings about commerce, day

When a miller fights with a chimney sweep, the miller gets black and the chimney sweep gets white.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about magic