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Stretch your hands as far as they reach, grab all you can grab.

Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian

Happiness is to hold flowers in both hands.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about happiness

Indecision is like a stepchild if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about water

The mouth does not eat if the feet do not walk and the hands work.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about work

The attacks of a wild beast cannot be averted with only bare hands.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

Those who make friendship with a club shouldn't expect a good handshake.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about friendship, good, good luck

If you want to smear somebody's face with mud, be prepared to dirty your hands.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about face

A man who lives on the banks of the Niger should not wash his hands with spittle.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about bankers, man

A man who lives on the banks of the river should not wash his hands with spittle.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about bankers, man

When one hand is injured the other nurses it, when both hands are injured they nurse each other.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about kiss, americans

Success is a ladder that cannot be climbed with your hands in your pockets.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans

A friend is one to whom one can pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keeping what is worth keeping, and, with the breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Proverbs and old sayings Arab about heart

If you are a friend of the captain, you can wipe your hands on the sail.

Proverbs and old sayings

One man's beard is on fire, and another man warms his hands on it.

Proverbs and old sayings about fire, fire brigade, man

Every wise woman builds her house: but the fool plucks it down with her hands.

Proverbs and old sayings about home, house, woman

A country without freedom is like a prisoner with shackled hands.

Proverbs and old sayings about country

What good is a something big that is still needed to be searched, if there is something small that is in your hands?

Proverbs and old sayings about good, good luck

What is noticed by his eyes, will not be left there by his hands.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian about eyes