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When the pear is ripe, it falls.

Proverbs and old sayings German

As a tree falls, so shall it lie.

Proverbs and old sayings German about lie

No tree falls at the first stroke.

Proverbs and old sayings German

He that climbs high, falls heavily.

Proverbs and old sayings German

He who digs a pit for others falls into it himself.

Proverbs and old sayings German

Where the lion's skin falls short, borrow of the fox.

Proverbs and old sayings German

Who falls short in the head, must be long in the heels.

Proverbs and old sayings German about heads

He who falls victim to his enemies can expect no mercy.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about victims, mercy, enemies

The fox that waits until the chicken falls from the perch dies from hunger.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek about hunger

The crab that walks too far falls into the pot.

Proverbs and old sayings Hatian

Buttered bread always falls dry side up.

Proverbs and old sayings

An unlucky man falls on straw, but splits his nose from a hidden stone.

Proverbs and old sayings about man

The rain falls upon the just and the unjust.

Proverbs and old sayings about rain

As it falls so it plumps.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

As the tree falls, it will lie.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian about lie

Between two chairs he falls below the bench.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

An udara fruit that falls on the side of the road is asking to be eaten.

Proverbs and old sayings Igbo

An udara fruit that falls by the roadside must want to be picked up and eaten.

Proverbs and old sayings Igbo

Half a leap falls into the ditch.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

When the sky falls we'll catch larks.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about sky