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A picture is worth a thousand words, and yet picture books are for infants.

Proverbs and old sayings English about books

It would be a huge book that contained all the may be said in a day.

Proverbs and old sayings French about day

It would be a very big book that contained all the maybes uttered in a day.

Proverbs and old sayings French about day

A good book praises itself.

Proverbs and old sayings German about good, good luck

A pack of cards is the devil's prayer-book.

Proverbs and old sayings German about devil

The book and the sword descended from heaven together.

Proverbs and old sayings

A book gives knowledge, but it is life that gives understanding.

Proverbs and old sayings about knowledge, life

He lies as if he read from a book.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

A man without a book is blind.

Proverbs and old sayings Icelandic about blind, man

Blind is a man without a book.

Proverbs and old sayings Icelandic about blind, man

Better shoeless than bookless.

Proverbs and old sayings Icelandic

A book is like a garden in the pocket.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about garden

A book is a good friend when it lays bare the errors of the past.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about error, past, good, good luck

To every cow its calf; to every book its copy.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

There's no thief like a bad book.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about thieves, bad luck, bad

There is no thief like a bad book.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about thieves, bad luck, bad

There is no worse thief than a bad book.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about thieves, bad luck, bad

There is no robber worse than a bad book.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about criminals, bad luck, bad

There is no worse robber than a bad book.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about criminals, bad luck, bad

God save me from him who studies but one book.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about god