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A restless grasshopper eventually ends up in a birds teeth.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about end

If your cornfield is far from your house, the birds will eat your corn.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about home, house

The sky is wide enough for two birds to fly without their wings touching.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about sky

You cannot stop planting cereals just because birds are going to feast on them.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about feast

Two birds disputed about a kernel, when a third swooped down and carried it off.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

Some birds are not meant to be caged there feathers are to blight and there meant to fly.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

You cannot stop birds from flying over your head, but you can stop them nesting in your hair.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about heads

Only birds of the same clan or species play together on the same tree.

Proverbs and old sayings

You can't keep the birds from flying over your head, but you can keep them from building a nest in your hair.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about heads, americans

Small birds must have meat.

Proverbs and old sayings British

You cannot catch old birds with chaff.

Proverbs and old sayings British about old, olderness

Singing birds don't build nests.

Proverbs and old sayings Cameroonian

The little birds have god for their caterer.

Proverbs and old sayings Chilean about god

Dead song-birds make a sad meal.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

The prettiest birds are in a cage.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

Clumsy birds have need of early flight.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about flight, need

People live like birds in the woods: When the time comes, each must take flight.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about flight, people, time

You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about sadness, heads

Old birds are not caught with chaff.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about old, olderness

Bread is better than the song of birds.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish