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Dragons often rise up on their tail.

Proverbs and old sayings Icelandic

Sometimes life can be as bitter as dragon tears. But whether dragon tears are bitter or sweat depends entirely on how each man perceives them.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about tears, bitter, life, man

With money you are a dragon; with no money, a worm.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about money

Hidden dragons, crouching tigers.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

Fill in the eyes to a painted dragon.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about eyes

With money, a dragon -- without it, a worm.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about money

There is no room for two dragons in one pond.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

In shallow holes moles make fools of dragons.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

In shallow waters, shrimps make fools of dragons.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

He who wants to be a dragon must eat many little snakes.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

The dragon has nine sons, each different from the others.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

Lord Ye's professed love of dragons turned into his worst fear.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about fear, love

The dragon teaches you that if you want to climb high you have to do it against the wind.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

A dragon will be teased by a shrimp in a shoal water; a tiger will be bullied by a dog on a treeless plain.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about water

It is ill done to chain a dragon for roasting your meat.

Proverbs and old sayings

Better be the head of a lizard than the tail of a dragon.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about heads

The head of a dragon, the tail of a snake.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about heads

Better to sit all night than to go to bed with a dragon.

Proverbs and old sayings about night

To attract good fortune, spend a new coin on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend, and lift up the heart of a true friend by writing his name on the wings of a dragon.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about writing, pleasure, name, wealth, heart, old, olderness, good, good luck

Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Proverbs and old sayings about power
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