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When wood breaks it can be repaired, but ivory breaks forever.

Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian

May your friendship not be like a stone: if it breaks you cannot put the pieces together. May it be like iron: when it breaks, you can weld the pieces back together.

Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about friendship

When a stone hits glass, the glass breaks. When glass hits a stone, the glass breaks.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian

If you are building a house and a nail breaks, do you stop building, or do you change the nail?

Proverbs and old sayings Rwandan about change, home, house

The last straw breaks the camel's back.

Proverbs and old sayings English

What breaks in a moment may take years to mend.

Proverbs and old sayings Swedish about moment

Thought breaks the heart.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about thinking, heart

A bowl should not laugh when a calabash breaks.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

The tree breaks that takes all the force of the wind.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about force, police

When one man's curse falls on a person another one breaks it.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about people, man

A guest who breaks the dishes of his host is not soon forgotten.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

If you are building something and a nail breaks, should you stop building altogether, or should you change the nail?

Proverbs and old sayings West African about change

He fasts and fasts, then he breaks his fast with an onion.

Proverbs and old sayings about fasting

When the cart breaks down, advice abounds.

Proverbs and old sayings Armenian about advice

As day breaks, the glowworms say We've lit up the world!

Proverbs and old sayings about world, day

Great haste breaks the yam tuber.

Proverbs and old sayings

Words in conversation are like beans, one breaks them off where they are ripe.

Proverbs and old sayings Bantu about conversation

Abuse of hospitality breaks the bridge.

Proverbs and old sayings

A man that breaks his word, bids others be false to him.

Proverbs and old sayings British about word, man

He who breaks his word shall through his word be broken.

Proverbs and old sayings Bulgarian about word