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Do not add legs to the snake after you have finished drawing it.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about drawing

Everyone stretches his legs according to the length of his coverlet.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

You can't take a step that's longer than your legs.

Proverbs and old sayings

A lie has short legs.

Proverbs and old sayings Czech about lie

Better walk on wooden legs, than be carried on a wooden bier.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

Sparrows should not dance with cranes, their legs are too short.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about dance

Flies' legs, like the tongue of critics, land on whatever they find.

Proverbs and old sayings

Stretch your legs no farther than your coverlet.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

Stretch your legs as far as your quilt goes.

Proverbs and old sayings Egyptian

Talk the hind legs off a donkey.

Proverbs and old sayings English

A lie has no legs, but a scandal has wings.

Proverbs and old sayings English about lie

Friends are like centipedes, they have many legs when work needs to be done.

Proverbs and old sayings English about work

By persevering the egg walks on legs.

Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian

You may well have two legs but you still can't climb two trees at the same time.

Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian about time

There's a man who looks like a partridge with legs like a mosquito.

Proverbs and old sayings Finnish about man

If you do not have a head, you must have legs.

Proverbs and old sayings French about heads

A baby is an angel whose wings decrease as his legs increase.

Proverbs and old sayings French

Lies have short legs.

Proverbs and old sayings German

Peacock, look at your legs.

Proverbs and old sayings German

Promises have legs. Only a gift has hands.

Proverbs and old sayings German about gifts