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Draw water from the new well, but do not spit in the old one.

Proverbs and old sayings Bulgarian about water, old, olderness

Draw a cake to satisfy one's hunger.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about hunger

Draw the bow but don't shoot -- it is a bigger threat to be intimidated than to be hit.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

Drawn wells have sweetest water.

Proverbs and old sayings about water

Draw not thy bow before thy arrow be fixed.

Proverbs and old sayings

The tongue like a sharp knife...Kills without drawing blood.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about drawing, blood

Add legs to the snake after you have finished drawing it.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about drawing

Forgiving the unrepentant is like drawing pictures on water.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about drawing, water

A drawing man clutches at straw.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about drawing, man

It is the good horse that draws its own cart.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about good, good luck

Do not put your foot further than you can draw it back again.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans

It is better to keep a wolf out of the fold than to trust drawing his teeth and talons after he shall have entered.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about drawing, americans

The beggar is not afraid of the drawbacks of being rich.

Proverbs and old sayings about being, wealth

It is not the horse that draws the cart, but the oats.

Proverbs and old sayings

I tried to draw the eyebrow, but I ended up poking the eye.

Proverbs and old sayings Azere

As the camel falls to its knees, more knives are drawn.

Proverbs and old sayings

Weil worth aw, that gars the plough draw.

Proverbs and old sayings British

Don't draw a sword against a louse.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

You cannot draw white cloth from a dying vat.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

Do not add legs to the snake after you have finished drawing it.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about drawing