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Land is permanent, man disappears.

Proverbs and old sayings about man

Other land blueberry; own land strawberry.

Proverbs and old sayings Finnish

When a man remembers the land, the land remembers him.

Proverbs and old sayings Finnish about man

When you're a stranger in a land, if good comes to it may you have you share and if bad comes let it go to the owners of the land who know what gods should be appeased.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about gods, bad luck, contentment, bad, good, good luck

The land where the stones know you is worth more than the land where the people know you.

Proverbs and old sayings Berber about people, contentment

In the land of the blind people the one with one eye is king.

Proverbs and old sayings Romanian about blind, people

It is better to cultivate a Land with two Bulls, rather working under Boss who never gives Wage when asked

Proverbs and old sayings British about salary, heads, old, olderness

The land of marriage has this peculiarity: That strangers are desirous of inhabiting it, while its natural inhabitants would gladly be exiled.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about marriage

The land is never devoid of counselors.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

One is born, one dies; the land increases.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

Where water is the boss, there must the land obey.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about heads, water

When weeds invade the land, it means the owner is absent.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about absent

Take what you need and leave our land the way you found it.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about need, contentment

In a strange land one should always move near one's kinsmen.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

When a new saying gets to the land of empty men they lose their heads over it.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about heads, man

If you want to clean the land secretly, the noise of the axe will give you away.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment

A bird may fly off the earth and land on an anthill, but it will still be on the ground.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about earth

A man gets to the land of spirits when he passes seven rivers, seven forests and seven hills.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about man

If two brothers fight over their father's land, it is a stranger who will enjoy there sweat and labour.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about fight

We do not inherit the land, we borrow it from our children.

Proverbs and old sayings about children, americans