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Building castles in the air.

Proverbs and old sayings German about air

Building and marrying of children are great wasters.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about children

Building the fence, when the cows are all stole.

Proverbs and old sayings Thai

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, contentment

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, contentment

What is the biggest building in the world?

A library because it has the most stories.

Riddles

A building of sand falls as you build it.

Proverbs and old sayings Cameroonian about contentment

Pouring water from above the roof of a tall building.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about water

No good building without a good foundation.

Proverbs and old sayings English about good, good luck

An hour may destroy what an age was building.

Proverbs and old sayings English about destruction, age, olderness

Communities begin by building their kitchen.

Proverbs and old sayings French about kitchen

If the building of a nest were easy, would the little apatipers bird roost in the fork of a tree?

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan

When building a house, don't measure the timbers in the forest.

Proverbs and old sayings Liberian about measure, home, house

A building without foundation is soon demolished.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish

He who did not help building the minaret, thinks that it just grew out from the ground.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish about help

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

Proverbs and old sayings Yugoslavian about garden, use

A tender bamboo cannot be eagerly desired for building.

Proverbs and old sayings

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

Proverbs and old sayings West African about end, contentment

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, contentment

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, contentment