Distant water won't quench your immediate thirst.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about water
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Distant water won't help to put out a fire close at hand.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about help, fire, fire brigade, water
Distant hills look beautiful; near ones are ugly.
Proverbs and old sayings
Shiny are the distant hills
Proverbs and old sayings British about old, olderness
The distant fields look greener.
Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans
If the well is distant, its water does not quench the thirst of the pilgrim.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about water
To meet an old friend in a distant country is like the delight of rain after a long drought.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about country, rain, old, olderness
Better a good neighbour than a distant friend.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about good, good luck
The loftier and more distant the ideal, the greater its power to lift up the soul.
Proverbs and old sayings about ideal, power, soul
Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy.
Proverbs and old sayings Irish
Better a near neighbour than a distant cousin.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian
A near neighbour is better than a distant cousin.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian
To most people), distant pepper is perceived as being sweet, and close sweets are perceived as being bitter.
Proverbs and old sayings about being, bitter, people
A traveler to distant places should make no enemies.
Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian about enemies
Better a distant good than a near evil.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about good, good luck
A distant fire does not burn.
Proverbs and old sayings about fire, fire brigade
Look to your near neighbour rather than to your distant brother.
Proverbs and old sayings Yemenite
The melon seller does not announce, Bitter melons. Distant water does not put out a nearby fire.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about bitter, fire, fire brigade, water
If you are poor, though you dwell in the busy marketplace, no one will inquire about you; if you are rich, though you dwell in the heart of the mountains, you will have distant relatives.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about wealth, heart
