Search in folklore: force

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Dropping water makes the rock hollow, not by its force, but by constant action.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about rocks, action, force, police, water

The force which a body at rest exercises on a body in motion impinging upon it.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about body, force, police

Skill will enable us to succeed in that which sheer force could not accomplish.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about force, police

You cannot force water up a hill.

Proverbs and old sayings about force, police, water

Where force rules, justice does not exist.

Proverbs and old sayings Macedonian about rules, force, police, justice

No matter how hidden a force is, it will attract some kind of resistance.

Proverbs and old sayings about force, police, americans

There is great force hidden in a sweet command.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about force, police

Advertising is the driving force of business.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about advertising, force, police, affair

What force cannot do ingenuity may.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about force, police

Where force prevails, right perishes.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about force, police, rightness

Voluntary is better than force.

Proverbs and old sayings about force, police

Fear may force a man to cast beyond the moon.

Proverbs and old sayings Swedish about force, police, moon, fear, man

Persuasion is better than force.

Proverbs and old sayings about force, police

If it goes, it goes, don't force it.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about force, police

A leopard is such an elusive animal that it can only be caught by the combined force of a man and his father-in-law.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about force, police, law, man

Negotiate with your enemy whilst you are a strong and formidable force, and he will always fear and respect you, but negotiate at the brink of defeat, and he will trample you down.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about defeat, force, police, respect, fear, enemies

Have a care how you irritate the wasps. [Meddle not with waspish people. Attack not a combined force. ]

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about attack, force, police, people

Be a custom good or bad, a peasant will have it continue in force.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about peasantry, force, police, bad luck, bad, good, good luck

One volunteer is better than ten forced men.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about man

A forced kindness deserves no thanks.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans