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If God give not bushelfuls, he gives spoonfuls.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about god

He will never get into the wood who starts at every bush.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

It is better to make conditions in the bush than in prison.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

He who hunts two hares from one bush, is not likely to catch either.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

You must knock a long while against an alder-bush before you get a swarm of bees out of it.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

Underneath every bush you'll find a mud rabbit ready to bolt.

Proverbs and old sayings

Don't cry holloa! till you're out of the bush.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

One beats the bush, and another catches the bird.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

A handfull of patience is worth a bushel of brains.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about patience

He that feareth every bush, must never go a-birding.

Proverbs and old sayings English

A bird in the hand is worth ten in the bush.

Proverbs and old sayings Finnish

A bad bush is better than an open field.

Proverbs and old sayings French about bad luck, bad

There is no bush so small but casts its shadow.

Proverbs and old sayings French about shadow

Even the smallest little bush casts some shadow.

Proverbs and old sayings French about shadow

He beat the bushes and another caught the birds.

Proverbs and old sayings French

To know a man well one must have eaten a bushel of salt with him.

Proverbs and old sayings French about man

The friendship of great men is like the shadow of a bush, soon gone.

Proverbs and old sayings French about shadow, friendship, man

Good wines needs no bush.

Proverbs and old sayings German about good, good luck

'Tis either a hare or a brake-bush.

Proverbs and old sayings German

Hide not your light under a bushel.

Proverbs and old sayings German about light