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No matter how big the butterfly may be, it cannot be called a bat.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about air, americans, man

A red-nosed man may not be a drunkard, but he will always be called one.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about man

His like Jean de Nivelle's dog, that runs away when he is called.

Proverbs and old sayings French

Birth, ancestry, and that which you yourself have not achieved can hardly be called your own.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek

Indecision is like the stepchild: if he doesn't wash his hands, he is called dirty; if he does, he is wasting the water.

Proverbs and old sayings about water

Be not a shoemaker nor yet a shaft maker save for thyself alone: let the shoe be misshapen, or crooked the shaft, and a curse on thy head will be called.

Proverbs and old sayings about heads

When Anger and Revenge get married, their daughter is called Cruelty.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about cruelty, revenge, anger

The man who loses his wife for good cause cannot be called cuckold.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about wife, good, good luck, man

He who has a bad wife can expect no happiness that can be so called.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about happiness, wife, bad luck, bad