A patient dually determined can fill a pot with water using a fingernail.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about water
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I pointed out the stars and moon to you, but all you saw was the tip of my finger.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about celebrity, stars, moon
Man cannot stir one inch without the push of heaven's finger.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about man
Temptation wrings integrity even as the thumbscrew twists a man's fingers.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about integrity, temptation, man
He is a very bad manager of honey who leaves nothing to lick off his fingers.
Proverbs and old sayings French about heads, nothing, bad luck, bad
The devil makes his Christmas pies of lawyers' tongues and clerk's fingers.
Proverbs and old sayings German about christmas, devil
O what we must suffer for the sake of God's church! said the abbot, when the roast fowl burned his fingers.
Proverbs and old sayings German about suffering, god
The responsibility of power is like holding an egg. Grasp it too tightly and it will drip through your fingers; hold it too loosely and it will drop and break.
Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about power
If you stab out the eye of thy neighbor cut off two finger and dip them in honey. Cook them in lemon curd and present them to his family in a pigeon pie. If they dine on a full moon his eye will sprout again from it's socket.
Proverbs and old sayings Gypsy about present, gypsies, family, moon
What gives the child the itch has already given him the fingernails for scratching it.
Proverbs and old sayings Igbo about children
Of three things the devil makes a salad: advocate's tongues, notaries' fingers, and a third that shall be nameless.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about devil, things
Darg-flea tell him pickeny him mustn't say him dead till him ketch pon finger nail.
Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican
It's tough trying to keep your feet on the ground, your head above the clouds, your nose to the grindstone, your shoulder to the wheel, your finger on the pulse, your eye on the ball and your ear to the ground.
Proverbs and old sayings about heads
As long as there are lice in the seams of the garment there must be bloodstains on the fingernails.
Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian
