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A talkative bird will not build a nest.

Men don't build on strange ground.

There is little use building a fence around the garden to keep out the rabbits.

A tender bamboo cannot be eagerly desired for building.

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,...

Traditional Wexford Curse

May the grass grow at your door and the fox build his nest on your hearthstone.
May the light fade from your eyes, so you never see what you love.
May your own blood rise against you, and the sweetest drink you...

Santa Claus is coming to town

I just came back from a lovely trip along the Milky Way.
I stopped off at the North Pole to spend a holiday.
I called on dear old Santa Claus to see what I could see.
He took me to his workshop and told his...

Several repeated visits to the mud pit enable the wasp to build its house.

If you don't mend up a small crack on the wall you end up building the entire wall.

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

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

You can stop a bird from flying over you, but you can't stop it building a nest.

The area covered by your life is not as important as what you can build on it.

When we Indians kill meat, we eat it all up. When we dig roots, we make little holes. When we build houses, we make little holes. When we burn grass for grasshoppers, we don't ruin things. We shake down acorns and pine nuts. We don't chop down the...