Search in folklore: grey

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Grey hairs are death's blossoms.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about death

Evening red and morning grey help the traveler on his way; evening grey and morning red bring down rain upon his head.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about help, rain, heads

E'ening grey and a morning red, put on your hat or ye'll weet your head; e'ening red an' a morning grey is a taiken o' a bonny day.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about heads, day

All cats are grey in the dark.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about dark

Fretting cares make grey hair

Proverbs and old sayings British about old, olderness

He who swallows an old man vomits grey hair.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about man, old, olderness

The gravity of the earth is so strong that the old grey man walks crooked.

Proverbs and old sayings Armenian about earth, man, old, olderness

The grey mare is the better horse.

Proverbs and old sayings British

Every kind of wood is grey when they are reduced to ashes.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

Few women turn grey because their husband dies.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about husband

By night all cats are grey.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about night

Eternity has no grey hairs.

Proverbs and old sayings English about eternity

Fretting cares make grey hairs.

Proverbs and old sayings English

Fools never get grey hair.

Proverbs and old sayings French

Mastiff never liked greyhound.

Proverbs and old sayings French

All cats are alike grey at night.

Proverbs and old sayings French about night

At night all cats are grey.

Proverbs and old sayings German about night

Care brings on grey hairs, and age without years.

Proverbs and old sayings German about age, olderness

Where all adulterers to wear grey coats, the cloth would be dear.

Proverbs and old sayings German

He disappeared like a grey donkey in the fog.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian