If you hear hoof beats, look for horses, not zebras.
Proverbs and old sayings
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The wind of heaven is that which blows between the horses ears.
Proverbs and old sayings Moroccan
Do not change horses in the middle of the river.
Proverbs and old sayings about change, americans
He has lost the horse, but is looking for the horseshoe.
Proverbs and old sayings Persian
It's easier for the horses when the woman gets off the cart.
Proverbs and old sayings Polish about woman
You cannot ride two horses with one ass.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian
You do not swap horses while crossing the ford.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian
The horses of hope gallop, but the asses of experience go slowly.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian about experience, hope
If you would be a merchant fine, beware o' auld horses, herring, and wine.
Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about wine
Chestnut horses and surly men can't even cover expenses.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about man
Ride on the back of a mare, but on the shoulders of horses.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian
You can't drive donkeys without a stick, nor horses without spurs.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian
The horseshoe that clatters wants a nail.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish
If wishes were horses, then beggars would ride.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish
One stroke on the nail and a hundred on the horseshoe.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish
The glass-dealer's horses fell out, and he looked on to see which kicked hardest.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish
One who rides two horses at once will split asunder.
Proverbs and old sayings
Don't trust the horses if they run away, or the whores if they repent.
Proverbs and old sayings Tunisian
The frog saw how the horses were shod, so she also lifted up her foot.
Proverbs and old sayings Turkish
If God should listen to rooks, he should send a plague to horses.
Proverbs and old sayings Bulgarian about god
