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The eagle was killed by an arrow made from its own feathers.

Proverbs and old sayings Armenian

If you shoot your arrows at stones, you will damage them.

Proverbs and old sayings Australian about contentment

The last partridge will take the most arrows.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

A hunter with one arrow doesn't shoot with a careless aim.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about hunters

The arrow that missed the head of its target will never hit the tail.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about heads

Words are like arrows throw them only when you know where they will fall.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about fall, word, contentment

Faster than an arrow.

Proverbs and old sayings

When you shoot an arrow of truth, dip its point in honey.

Proverbs and old sayings about truth, contentment

Why would a man without a bow look for arrows?

Proverbs and old sayings about man

A trick is not an arrow.

Proverbs and old sayings

For a jest one should not take the arrow out of the quiver.

Proverbs and old sayings

A son as cunning as his father knows the arrows like father.

Proverbs and old sayings

The place to use the club and the above arrow are not the same.

Proverbs and old sayings about use

A good archer is not known by his arrows, but his aim.

Proverbs and old sayings British about good, good luck

Using up the arrows, before getting into battle.

Proverbs and old sayings

Don't use up your arrows before you go to battle.

Proverbs and old sayings about use, contentment

Kill two vultures with one arrow.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

Deer-hunter, waste not your arrow on the hare.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about waste, hunters

It is easy to dodge the arrow of an enemy, but difficult to avoid the spear of a friend.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about enemies

It is too late to cry Hold hard! when the arrow has left the bow.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch