Search in folklore: branch

79 results

The monkey knows which branch to swing on.

Proverbs and old sayings

Woe to him who sits upon a branch.

Proverbs and old sayings Croatian

The old branch breaks when it is bent.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about old, olderness

The branch is seldom better than the stem.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

The wet branch burns better than the dry stone.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

The branch must be bent early that is to make a good crook.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about good, good luck

When the tree falls everyone runs to cut the branches.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

A bird hanging between two branches will get bitten on both wings.

Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian

A young branch can be straightened, a mature one breaks.

Proverbs and old sayings

No one can climb a tree with no branches.

Proverbs and old sayings Finnish

Always exist branch grabbers, when exist fir-tree haulers.

Proverbs and old sayings Finnish

Better one hazel grouse in the bag, than ten on the branch.

Proverbs and old sayings Finnish

The highest branch is not the safest roost.

Proverbs and old sayings French

It is well to fly low on account of the branches.

Proverbs and old sayings French

When the tree is down everybody runs to the branches.

Proverbs and old sayings French

The army of the palm tree is its branches.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan

The strength of the palm tree is in its branches.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan

The prickly branches of the palm tree do not show preference even to friends.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan

A poor man is pulled even by the branch of a tree.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian about man

Truth has no branches.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about truth