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Men are as old as they fell, and women as they look.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about man, old, olderness

A monkey makes fun of the red behinds of his fellow monkeys.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese

The winds may fell the massive oak, but bamboo, bent even to the ground, will spring upright after the passage of the storm.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about spring

The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverbs and old sayings Jewish about good, good luck

One man cut the bund/barrage, and a thousand people fell into the river.

Proverbs and old sayings about people, man

Stone dead hath no fellow.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

His heart fell down to his heels.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about heart

He fell to-day, I may fall to-morrow.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about fall, day

Liberate me from that bad fellow, myself.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about bad luck, bad

By repeated blows even the oak is felled.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

A blockhead, a dolt, a donkey, a leaden-headed fellow.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

What is an exalted position to a low fellow but a golden ring in a swine's snout?

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

Don't look where you fell, but where you slipped.

Proverbs and old sayings Liberian

The world is a wheel and men are the fellowes, and the devil prowling around spins.

Proverbs and old sayings Maltese about world, devil, man

Worth makes the man and want of it the fellow.

Proverbs and old sayings Mexican about man

Don't lean on your fellow men -- theirs is an ever moving support.

Proverbs and old sayings New Zealand about man

From sudden desire of halim he fell in the pot.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian

A small hatchet fells a great oak.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese

He that never rode never fell.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian

An oak is not felled at one stroke.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian