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De higher de monkey climb, de more he does show he tail.

Proverbs and old sayings

When the shooting starts climb on your camel and head for the mountaintops.

Proverbs and old sayings about heads

Life is a ladder -- some will climb up it, others down.

Proverbs and old sayings Bulgarian about life

Don't climb a tree to catch a fish.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

Looking for fish? Don't climb a tree.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

Virtue: climbing a hill; vice: running down.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about vice, virtue

To enjoy a grander sight, climb to a greater height.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

You must climb the mountain if you would see the plain.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

To climb a tree to catch a fish is talking much and doing nothing.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about talking, nothing

The flatterer makes you climb up a tree then takes the ladder away.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

To talk much and arrive nowhere is the same as climbing a tree to catch a fish.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

The dragon teaches you that if you want to climb high you have to do it against the wind.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

The goat that climbs up the rock also has to go down.

Proverbs and old sayings about rocks

The higher the monkey climbs, the more it is exposed to danger.

Proverbs and old sayings about danger

Those who climb high, often have a fall.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about fall

No one falls low unless he attempt to climb high.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

Where you cannot climb over, you must creep under.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

He who would drive another over three dikes must climb over two himself.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

You cannot take hawks without climbing some cliffs.

Proverbs and old sayings

When apes climb high, they show their naked rumps.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch