When cats are hairdressers, rats will always go around with uncombed hair.
Proverbs and old sayings West African
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No matter how tall a camel is, it will never get taller than the hair on its back.
Proverbs and old sayings West African
You cannot stop birds from flying over your head, but you can stop them nesting in your hair.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about heads
Experience is a comb which fate gives to a man when his hair is all gone.
Proverbs and old sayings South American about destiny, experience, americans, man
You can't keep the birds from flying over your head, but you can keep them from building a nest in your hair.
Proverbs and old sayings South American about heads, americans
You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about sadness, heads
Though the bird may fly over your head, let it not make its nest in your hair.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about heads
It is easy to work with a good comb, said the devil, when he combed his mother's hair with a pitchfork.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about work, mother, devil, good, good luck
If you don't want to be deceived, you must have as many eyes as hairs on the head.
Proverbs and old sayings German about eyes, heads
Often a troll-woman is under fair skin, and virtue under dark hair.
Proverbs and old sayings Icelandic about dark, virtue, woman
The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.
Proverbs and old sayings Irish about people
With a sweet tongue of kindness, you can drag an elephant by a hair.
Proverbs and old sayings Persian
With a sweet tongue and kindness, you can drag an elephant by a hair.
Proverbs and old sayings Persian
By a sweet tongue and kindness, you can drag an elephant with a hair.
Proverbs and old sayings Persian
He that takes all his geir fra himself, and gives it to his bairns, it were weil ward to take a mell and knock out his hairns.
Proverbs and old sayings
You cannot prevent the birds of sadness from passing over your head, but you can prevent them from nesting in your hair.
Proverbs and old sayings Swedish about sadness, heads
