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The distant fields look greener.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans

A fool bull will look only for the green grass without looking the danger of toppling over the steep valley.

Proverbs and old sayings about danger

A stick one bends while it is still green.

Proverbs and old sayings Bantu

Wait horse for green grass.

Proverbs and old sayings Bulgarian

My Uncle is sick, but the highway is green.

Proverbs and old sayings Chilean

If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about heart

If I keep a green bough in my heart, then the singing bird will come.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about heart

Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about heart

So long as the green mountains are preserved, there will be no shortage of firewood supply.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

The fangs of the green snake and the sting of a wasp don't really make poison -- that is only to be found in a woman's heart.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about heart, woman

Superfine green beans, tomatoes and Chasselas grapes.

Proverbs and old sayings

The yew tree exists three hundred years: first green, then dry, then gone.

Proverbs and old sayings

He who is not lazy shall get much green.

Proverbs and old sayings Czech

A green Yule makes a fat churchyard.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

A green Christmas makes a fat churchyard.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about christmas

Better walk unshackled in a green meadow, than be bound to a thorn-brush.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

Grass is greener in other pastures.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

A young wife, new bread, and green wood devastate a house.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about wife, home, house

It is ill prizing of green barley.

Proverbs and old sayings English

Gray and green make the worst medley.

Proverbs and old sayings French