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When the rain falls, it falls on both the freeborn and the slaves.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about rain

When the child falls the mother weeps; when the mother falls the child laughs.

Proverbs and old sayings Rwandan about children, mother

When a rich man falls they say it was an accident; when a poor man falls they say that he was drunk.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish about wealth, man

If a stone falls on an egg, it is bad for the egg; if an egg falls onto a stone, it is still bad for the egg.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish about bad luck, bad

When a needle falls into a deep well, many people will look into the well, but few will be ready to go down after it.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about people

A tree falls the way it leans.

Proverbs and old sayings Bulgarian

The apple does not fall/never falls far from the tree

Proverbs and old sayings British about fall, old, olderness

The bread never falls but on its buttered side

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about old, olderness

The pot of water falls from your head when you have just reached the door of your homestead.

Proverbs and old sayings about heads, water

A ripe melon falls by itself.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

He who falls, teaches others a lesson.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about teaching

Where the rain falls there is no hunger.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about hunger, rain

A fly that falls on your wound is more important.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

When the big tree falls, the goat eats its leaves.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

When one man's curse falls on a person another one breaks it.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about people, man

Don't count the many times a man falls but those times he rises up.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about man

When a single grass falls from a grass-thatched house it doesn't leak.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about home, house

Whether the knife falls on the melon or the melon on the knife, the melon suffers.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

Fowls will not spare a cockroach that falls in their midst.

Proverbs and old sayings

The older the fool, the harder he falls.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans