Crooked wood is straightened with fire.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about fire, fire brigade
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Crooked iron may be straightened with a hammer.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish
Crooked logs make straight fires.
Proverbs and old sayings English
Crooked wood burns quite as well as straight.
Proverbs and old sayings German
Crooked by nature is never made straight by education.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about education, nature
Crooked load will not get to the destination.
Proverbs and old sayings Persian
Crooked carlin, quoth the carle to his wife.
Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about wife
A crooked stick will have a crooked shadow.
Proverbs and old sayings French about shadow
A crooked top on a crooked kettle.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese
When the light is crooked, the shadow is crooked.
Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about shadow, light
A camel cannot see the crookedness of its neck.
Proverbs and old sayings West African
A person cutting the path doesn't know that it is crooked.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about people
More corn grows in crooked rows.
Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans
A crooked cornstalk can have a straight ear.
Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans
These three take crooked ways: carts, boats, and musicians.
Proverbs and old sayings
A straight stick looks crooked in the water.
Proverbs and old sayings British about water
Don't reject the crooked road and don't take the straight one, instead take the one traveled by the ancestors.
Proverbs and old sayings Cambodian about ancestors
She is like a road -- pretty, but crooked.
Proverbs and old sayings Cameroonian
If you stand straight Do not fear a crooked shadow.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about shadow, fear
A fair skin often covers a crooked mind.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about mind
