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Don't pluck the apple while it is green; when it is ripe it will fall of itself.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about fall

I have seen as light a green.

Proverbs and old sayings about light

Thraw the wand while it is green.

Proverbs and old sayings

Ye never saw green cheese but your e'en reei'd.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

Glasgow people, Greenock folk, and Paisley bodies.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about people

He would gar you trow that the mune's made o' green cheese.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

Too much rain makes the green grain fall over.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about rain, fall

She is fond of greens who kisses the gardener.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about kiss

The grass looks greener on the other side of the fence.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

The green burns for the dry, and the righteous pay for sinners.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

Stretch hide while it is still green.

Proverbs and old sayings

Hedges between keep friendships green.

Proverbs and old sayings

The green twig is easily bent.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish

Men make the earth black from green leaves.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish about magic, earth, man

If you dress in gold or silk, you are still the same green grocer.

Proverbs and old sayings

It is not for my own sake, said the fox, that I say there is a good goose-green in the wood.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about good, good luck