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Living life is not like just crossing a field.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about life

Living your life is not like crossing a meadow.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about life

You do not swap horses while crossing the ford.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian

A cross-eyed Tsar, one-eyed ministers, blind subjects.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about blind

Unless the thunder strikes, a man won't cross himself.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about man

Don't blame your wife's side if your son is cross-eyed.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about wife

The peasant will not cross himself before it begins to thunder.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about peasantry

There grows nae grass at the cross.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

There grows nae grass at the market cross.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

Better to be shot with a crossbow than rejected by a window slammed shut.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

The devil hides behind the cross.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about devil

Old as is the boat it may cross the ferry once.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about old, olderness

I thought to cross myself, and I put out my eye.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about thinking

The cross on his breast, and the devil in his acts.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about devil

I thought I had made the sign of the cross -- and I hurt my eye.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about thinking

Don't cross the brook for water.

Proverbs and old sayings Swedish about water

Eyes can see widely: They can cross a river in full flood.

Proverbs and old sayings about eyes

Who lies with the blind gets up cross-eyed.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish about blind

The devil likes to hide behind a cross.

Proverbs and old sayings Ukrainian about devil

A man with a cross eye shall be put to the torch.

Proverbs and old sayings about man