It's the tortoise's shell, ugly and hard that protects its life long journey on earth.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about earth, life
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He that fights for a ne'er-do-well has nothing to show for it except a head covered in earth and grime.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about earth, heads, nothing
All earthly goods we have only on loan.
Proverbs and old sayings
A mother-in-law may be good, but she is better when mother earth covers her up.
Proverbs and old sayings about mother, earth, law, good, good luck
A weir close to completion left undone due to the shortage of a basket of earth.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about earth
The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about miracle, air, earth, water
He who looks only at heaven may easily break his nose on earth.
Proverbs and old sayings Czech about earth
The earthen pan gains nothing by contact with the copper pot.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about nothing
Were the sky to fall, not an earthen pot would be left whole.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about sky, fall
Covetousness is never satisfied till its mouth is filled with earth.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about earth
You travel on until you return home; you live on until you return to earth.
Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian about earth, home
There is no earthly bliss not watered by tears.
Proverbs and old sayings about tears
If the doctor cures the sun sees it, but if he kills the earth hides it.
Proverbs and old sayings French about earth, sun
Many who build castles in the air cannot build a hut on earth.
Proverbs and old sayings German about air, earth
Folks say there is a lack of four sorts of people on earth: of priests, else one would not have six or seven benefices; of gentleman, else every boor would not want to be a squire; of whores, else married women and nuns would not carry on the...
Proverbs and old sayings German about christians, commerce, earth, people
To an earthenware dish a wooden spoon.
Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian
The difference between them is like that between sky and earth.
Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian about earth, sky
It is easier to cover our feet with sandals than to cover the earth with carpets.
Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about earth
Looking up we are not ashamed in the presence of heaven, nor bowing down are we ashamed in the presence of earth.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about earth
So ends all earthly glory.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about glory, end
