The holly and the ivy, When they are both full grown Of all the trees that are in the wood The holly bears the crown O the rising of the sun And the running of the deer The playing of the merry organ Sweet singing...
Carols
No crowd ever waited at the gates of patience.
Proverbs and old sayings about patience
It has a crown, but is is not a king, it has roots, but is not a plant. (The tooth)
Riddles
Two is company, but three is a crowd,
Proverbs and old sayings British about companies, old, olderness
The crow is clever, but looks at what it eats.
Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about intelligence
Not to be considered queer conform to the crowd.
Proverbs and old sayings Afghan
A dead cock never crows.
Proverbs and old sayings West African
After the evil cross the crown has come.
Proverbs and old sayings West African
Where the rooster crows there is a village.
Proverbs and old sayings West African
The country rooster dows not crow in the town.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about city, country
A foreign cock can never crow in a foreign country.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about country
Shame to the house where the hen crows and the cock is silent.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about shame, home, house
The cock belongs to one household, but when it crows it is heard in the whole village.
Proverbs and old sayings West African
The madman, who throws a stone into a crowded market, forgets that his own mother could be hit by his madness.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about mother
The crow wanted to mimic the pigeon's walk and forgot his own
Proverbs and old sayings Algerian
The end crowns all.
Proverbs and old sayings South American about end, americans
Bad the crow, bad the egg.
Proverbs and old sayings South American about bad luck, bad, americans