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A drowning man takes hold of his own hair.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek about man

Long hair, short wit.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

The bite of a dog is healed by the hair of it.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

Having no ointment and box why do you pose as hairdresser.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

Better wise language than well combed hair.

Proverbs and old sayings Icelandic about language

A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a hair.

Proverbs and old sayings

More hair than tit, like a mountain heifer.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

A hair on the head is worth two on the brush.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about heads

If you meet a red-haired woman, you'll meet a crowd.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about woman

To be red-haired is better than to be without a head.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about heads

A hair of the dog cures the bite.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

A dog never bit me but I had some of his hair.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

When a bald man dies the mourners give him curly hair as a present.

Proverbs and old sayings about present, man

It hangs by a hair.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

Even a hair hath its shadow.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about shadow

The wolf changes his hair, but not his nature.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about nature

What though his hair be gray, his mind is no less vigorous than ever.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about mind

To remove the hairs from a horse's tail, one by one must be plucked out.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

Opportunity has hair in front, behind she is bald; if you seize her by the forelock, you may hold her, but, if suffered to escape, not Jupiter himself can catch her again.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about chance

Wealth is like hair in the nose: it hurts to be separated whether from a little or from a lot.

Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about wealth