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Horns an' grey hair dinna aye come o' years.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

A's no gowd that glitters, nor maidens that wear their hair.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

True wisdom is born with white hair.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about wisdom

At Caltagirone a hairy conscience and a crown with fifteen places.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about conscience

One hair from the head of a woman pulls more than a ship's hauser.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about heads, woman

When a single hair has fallen from your head, you are not yet bald.

Proverbs and old sayings about heads

Another's care hangs by a hair.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

A hair casts its shadow on the ground.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about shadow

The bad barber leaves neither hair nor skin.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about bad luck, bad

That was on the hair.

Proverbs and old sayings Swedish

Other years other hairs.

Proverbs and old sayings Swedish

Don't judge the dog from its hairs.

Proverbs and old sayings Swedish about judges

A single hair hides the mountain in the distance.

Proverbs and old sayings Thai

Don't notice the tiny flea in the other person's hair and overlook the lumbering yak on your own nose.

Proverbs and old sayings Tibetan about people

The bald woman boasts of her sister's hair.

Proverbs and old sayings Tunisian about woman

Three hairs are quickly combed.

Proverbs and old sayings

Three things give us hardy strength: sleeping on hairy mattresses, breathing cold air, and eating dry food.

Proverbs and old sayings Welsh about air, food, things

Having grey hair because of old age is not a shame.

Proverbs and old sayings Yemenite about olderness, shame, age, old

If you see your brother being scalped, put water on your hair.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about being, water