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Every bird needs its own feathers.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

If you cannot get the bird, get one of its feathers.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

That is poor help that helps you from the feather-bed to the straw.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about help

You cannot forge a hammer from featherpod fluff, nor spin spidersilk from precious copper.

Proverbs and old sayings

Showing off other people's feathers.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about people

Geese are plucked as long as they have any feathers.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

Far fowls have fair feathers.

Proverbs and old sayings English

We are often shot with our own feathers.

Proverbs and old sayings English

If every bird take back its own feathers, you'll be naked.

Proverbs and old sayings English

Fair feathers make fair fowls.

Proverbs and old sayings French

Fine feathers make find birds.

Proverbs and old sayings French

Better bread in the basket than a feather in your cap.

Proverbs and old sayings French

The word of a woman is as a little feather on the water.

Proverbs and old sayings French about word, woman, water

He who eats of the king's goose will void a feather forty years after.

Proverbs and old sayings French

Don't fly till your wings are feathered.

Proverbs and old sayings German

Of big words and feathers may go to the pound.

Proverbs and old sayings German

Of words and feathers, it takes many to make a pound.

Proverbs and old sayings German

When a dove begins to fly with crows, its feathers remain white but its heart grows black.

Proverbs and old sayings German about magic, heart

When a dove begins to associate with crows its feathers remain white but its heart grows black.

Proverbs and old sayings German about magic, heart

He boasts, with foreign feathers.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian