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Be skeptical; long garments can also hide big feet.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet of wind.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

Even for a tree of 10000 feet, it's leaves return to the root when they fall.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about fall

You can't put both feet in one shoe.

Proverbs and old sayings

God cometh with leaden feet, but striketh with iron hands.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about god

All feet tread not in one shoe.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

A horse may stumble, though he has four feet.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

He that can be patient finds his foe at his feet.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

The head and feet keep warm, the rest will take no harm.

Proverbs and old sayings English about heads

His fore feet though you sever, his grip he'll make good.

Proverbs and old sayings English about good, good luck

Who sets a bug on its feet on the path will step up the staircase.

Proverbs and old sayings Estonian

He is a horse with four white feet.

Proverbs and old sayings French

A handsome shoe often pinches the feet.

Proverbs and old sayings French

He is like a cat, he always falls on his feet.

Proverbs and old sayings French

He is a horse with four white feet (i.e., he is unlucky).

Proverbs and old sayings French

A beggar on his feet is worth more than an emperor in his grave.

Proverbs and old sayings French

The cat would eat fish, but would not wet her feet.

Proverbs and old sayings Georgian

Good will gives wings to the feet.

Proverbs and old sayings German about good, good luck

Everyone wipes his feet on poverty.

Proverbs and old sayings German about poverty

Work paid for in advance has feet of lead.

Proverbs and old sayings German about work