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I wish that he would sink as deep in the ground as a hare can run in ten years.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about wish

If you gladly stoop to the ground don't be surprised if they trample over you.

Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian

Between two stools one sits on the ground.

Proverbs and old sayings French

Every one is emperor on his own ground.

Proverbs and old sayings German

Grain and graciousness grow on good ground.

Proverbs and old sayings German about good, good luck

He who lies on the ground must expect to be trodden on.

Proverbs and old sayings German

He who dies for the truth finds holy ground everywhere for his grave.

Proverbs and old sayings German about truth

A man must put grain in the ground before he can cut the harvest.

Proverbs and old sayings Gypsy about gypsies, man

He is ground between two millstones.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

When the bed breaks, there is the ground to lie on.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about lie

The grace of God is found between the saddle and the ground.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about grace, god

He who builds on another's ground loses his stone and mortar.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

Rained on ground hardens.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese

Any ground is good enough to be buried in.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about good, good luck

If you lie on the ground, you cannot fall.

Proverbs and old sayings Jewish about lie, fall

Don't build the bungalow on an inch of ground.

Proverbs and old sayings

He who lies on the ground cannot fall.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about fall

A chair unsound Soon finds the ground.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

While between two stools my tail go to the ground.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

The buttocks never mistake the ground.

Proverbs and old sayings about mistake