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He who listened to the woman suffered famine at harvest time.

Proverbs and old sayings about woman, time

The more help in the cornfield the smaller the harvest.

Proverbs and old sayings about help

Do not choose your wife at a dance, but in the field among the harvesters.

Proverbs and old sayings Czech about dance, wife

Lower your head modestly while passing, and you will harvest bananas.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about heads

A lazy man will remember he has not planted when is neighbour is harvesting.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about man

Knowledge is like a garden, if you don't cultivate it you cannot harvest it.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about knowledge, garden

In the planting season visitors come singly, and in harvest time they come in crowds.

Proverbs and old sayings Australian about season, time

It is good to be priest at Easter, child in Lent, peasant at Christmas, and foal in harvest-time.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about peasantry, christmas, children, time, good, good luck

If the bread in the oven is a failure you lose a week; if the harvest is a failure you lose a year; if marriage is a failure then you lose a life.

Proverbs and old sayings Estonian about failure, marriage, life

Knowledge is like a garden: if it is not cultivated, it cannot be harvested.

Proverbs and old sayings Guinean about knowledge, garden

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

Proverbs and old sayings Gypsy about gypsies, man

He whoa breeds crows, will have his eyes taken out- you harvest what you planted.

Proverbs and old sayings Mexican about eyes

A farmer who would not work inside the rain and would not work under the sun, would have nothing to harvest at the end of the farming year.

Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian about work, rain, sun, end, nothing

The sluggard will not plough by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about reason, nothing

There are a hundred owners besides you until the wheat is harvested.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

When you uproot vines as you plant vines, you'll never harvest the grapes.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

Whoever sows within the vineyard, neither reaps a crop nor harvests grapes.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

If you invest a lot but don't maintain it, you won't even harvest enough to re-seed.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

As you pay the price with the fertilizer, the hoe and pruning determines the harvest of the olives.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian