A bird will always use another birds' feathers to feather its own nest.
Proverbs and old sayings about use
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A piece of bread in the pocket is better than a feather in the hat.
Proverbs and old sayings Swedish
A piece of bread in your pocket is better than a feather in your hat.
Proverbs and old sayings Swedish
Who cares about every little feather should not make the bed.
Proverbs and old sayings Swiss
Chicken are beautiful because of their feathers, women are beautiful because of their make-up.
Proverbs and old sayings Thai
The young magpie that pulls feathers out of his mother thinks that he is showing gratitude in that way.
Proverbs and old sayings Tibetan about gratitude, mother
A bird is known by his feathers.
Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish
The bird, which flaps its wings too much, will drop its feathers.
Proverbs and old sayings West African
A severely under paid hungry teacher in a renovated, well-equipped classroom, can perform just as well as a bird without feathers can do in a hanging, decorated cage.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about teachers
You must walk a long while behind a wild goose before you find an ostrich feather.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish
The fox that sleeps in the morning has not his tongue feathered.
Proverbs and old sayings French
Duty is heavy as a mountain but Death is lighter than a feather.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about duty, death
Flight towards preferment will be but slow without some golden feathers.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about flight
Give assistance, and receive thanks lighter than a feather: injure a man, and his wrath will be like lead.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about man
You can best shoot an eagle with an arrow made from its own feathers.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian
The men o' the east are pykin their geese, and sendin' their feathers here-awa there-awa.
Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about man
He that eats the king's geese shall be choked with the feathers.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish
He who eats a partridge in his youth will only be left with feathers in his old age.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about olderness, youth, age, old
Elephants are killed for their ivory, birds for their feathers.
Proverbs and old sayings Vietnamese
