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Horns are not too heavy for the cow.

Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian

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

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

The horns of the sister are horns of gold; the horns of the wife are true horns.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about wife

If regret was a horn, one's horn would reach the sky.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about regret, sky

The ass went seeking for horns and lost his ears.

Proverbs and old sayings

The calf is not afraid of the mother's horns.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about mother

The horns cannot be too heavy for the cow that bears them.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

Even a horn can be stopped from fighting and made to sing forever.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

If a horn deserves a jawbone, they attach one to it.

Proverbs and old sayings

The puff adder that cannot fly has caught the hornbill that flies.

Proverbs and old sayings

All are not hunters that blow the horn.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about hunters, americans

Fate can be taken by the horns, like a goat, and pushed in the right direction.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about destiny, rightness, americans

He fights with horns made of clay.

Proverbs and old sayings

The ox which has no horns, relies for help on the one that has them.

Proverbs and old sayings about help

You take a bull by the horns and a man by his words.

Proverbs and old sayings Bantu about man

The bull should be taken by the horns, a man at his word.

Proverbs and old sayings Bantu about word, man

A horn spoon holds no poison.

Proverbs and old sayings British

Flies plough the ox' horns.

Proverbs and old sayings Bulgarian

Cursed cows have short horns.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese