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A gold branch with a jade leaf.

Proverbs and old sayings Thai about salary

Wrapped within rags might be gold.

Proverbs and old sayings Thai

Cover the back of an image of Buddha with gold leaf.

Proverbs and old sayings Thai about salary

Words are mere bubbles of water; deeds are drops of gold.

Proverbs and old sayings Tibetan about deeds, water

With gold you can make a road to heaven but it will end in hell.

Proverbs and old sayings about hell, end

The streets of London are paved with gold.

Proverbs and old sayings

As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.

Proverbs and old sayings about woman

A gold sword opens an iron door.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish

If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish

There isn't a sword that would cut off a golden hand.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish

The bride who brings a golden throne will sit on it herself.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish

With gold I can buy things; with thinking I can understand things.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish about thinking, things, commerce

They put the nightingale into a golden cage, yet it still craved for its home.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish about home

Everything that is yellow is not gold.

Proverbs and old sayings Welsh

Better a friend at court than gold on the finger.

Proverbs and old sayings Welsh

If speech is of silver, silence is golden.

Proverbs and old sayings Yemenite about silence

A golden key will open every lock.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish

Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about bad luck, good luck

Better an ounce of happiness than a pound of gold.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about happiness