Search in folklore: leaves

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A lizard on a cushion will still seek leaves.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian

A low fog leaves good weather.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about weather, good, good luck

Who leaves the old way for the new, the trouble not looked for, will be found there.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about old, olderness

The bad barber leaves neither hair nor skin.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about bad luck, bad

He who leaves his people will be left by God.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about people, god

The cat always leaves her mark upon her friend.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

Memory is everyone's friend -- it leaves you when you need it most.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about memory, need

The pitcher goes so often to the well, that it leaves its handle or its mouth.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

As the stone leaves your hand it belongs to the devil.

Proverbs and old sayings Swiss about devil

The bird leaves no trail.

Proverbs and old sayings Thai

Men make the earth black from green leaves.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish about magic, earth, man

If the wind does not blow, the leaves do not move.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish

Who leaves no traces in the field, will be put to shame at harvest.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish about shame

No matter how tall a tree might grow it will always shed its leaves on the ground.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

Don't make a goat your friend if your skirt is made of plantation leaves, or else it will strip you naked.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

True friends are like diamonds, precious and rare; false ones like autumn leaves, found everywhere.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about autumn, americans

The one who does not make you happy when he arrives makes you happy when he leaves.

Proverbs and old sayings Bengali about happiness

A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every passerby leaves a mark.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about children, life

The nuts from a palm tree don't fall without dragging a few leaves with it.

Proverbs and old sayings Congolese about fall