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The dead know the price of wood.

Proverbs and old sayings

Shavings fly where wood is being chopped.

Proverbs and old sayings Polish about being

Both the cross and the gallows are made of wood.

Proverbs and old sayings Polish

In blacksmith's house, wood skewer.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about home, house

Like wood, like arrow.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian

You cannot see the wood for the trees.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about contentment

From the same wood you can make a cross or a club.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about contentment

He that fears leaves, let him not go into the wood.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian

Better a bed of wood than a bier of gold.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian

When wood is chopped, woodchips will fly.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian

Where you saw wood, there the sawdust will fall.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about fall, contentment

However you feed the wolf, he still looks at the wood.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about contentment

If you call a piece of wood 'child', you can never use it to light fire since it has become so precious.

Proverbs and old sayings Rwandan about use, light, children, fire, fire brigade, contentment

Anes wood, never wise, ay the worse.

Proverbs and old sayings

There are mae wayes to the wood nor ane.

Proverbs and old sayings

Long ere you cut Falkland-wood with a Pen-knife.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

He cuts near the wood.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

He cuts awfu' near the wood.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

Ye canna see the wood for trees.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

There's mair ways to the wood than ane.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish