Don't build bigger houses than you may set roofs on.
Proverbs and old sayings Swedish
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An upstanding peasant is bigger than a nobleman on his knees.
Proverbs and old sayings Swedish about peasantry
You can make the dream bigger than the night.
Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about dream, night
Small children won't let you sleep, bigger children won't let you live.
Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about children, sleep
The bigger the pot the more rice will stick to it.
Proverbs and old sayings Zulu
Maybe my canoe is bigger than yours, but the sea is the same. If there are no fish, we both go hungry.
Proverbs and old sayings Zulu
Holiday of Saint Nicolae
Saint Nicolae is the spiritual patriarch in Holland, Russia, Greece, France and in a lot of cities from Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy and Belgium. He is known as the protector of poor people, sailors, tradesmen,...
Traditions and superstitions Romanian
The man who flatters you is a liar: the greater the flattery, the bigger the liar.
Proverbs and old sayings South American about flattering, americans, man
He who takes revenge for a small insult, will have a bigger one thrown at him.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about revenge
A person's reputation is like his shadow-sometimes it follows and sometimes it precedes him; and sometimes it is smaller and sometimes it is bigger than him.
Proverbs and old sayings French about prestige, shadow, people
Disgrace is like the grain of a tree trunk -- time makes it bigger instead of erasing it.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about time
Don't worry about biting off more than you can chew. Your mouth is probably a whole lot bigger'n you think.
Proverbs and old sayings about worry
