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Fairest gems lie deepest.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about lie, americans

Wide experience makes for deep tolerance.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about tolerance, experience, americans

The best fishing is in the deepest waters.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans

He who has crossed the flood knows how deep it is.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans

Plough your furrows deep while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about commerce, sleep, americans

Our pleasures are shallow, our sorrows are deep.

Proverbs and old sayings

Pleasures are shallow, sorrows deep.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

Great doubts deep wisdom. Small doubts little wisdom.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about wisdom

It's not that the well is too deep, but rather the rope is too short.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

The virtue of a woman does not go deep but her passion knows no limit.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about limits, virtue, woman

When there are no great tigers in the deep mountains, even a monkey can become king.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

When the crocodile says that the river crossing is deep you must believe it.

Proverbs and old sayings

The curse on the hearth wounds the deepest.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

I wish that he would sink as deep in the ground as a hare can run in ten years.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about wish

Still waters are the deepest.

Proverbs and old sayings English

There's always a deep breath before a plunge.

Proverbs and old sayings English

Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes straight to the bone.

Proverbs and old sayings English about beauty

A little knowledge is dangerous. Drink deep, or taste not the puritan waters.

Proverbs and old sayings English about knowledge, drinking

He who digs too deep for a fish, may come out with a snake.

Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian

High climbers and deep swimmers never grow old.

Proverbs and old sayings German about old, olderness