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Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about man, knowledge, wisdom

If your enemy is up to his waist in water, give him your hand; if the water reaches his shoulders, stand on his head.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about water, enemies, heads

If you do something wrong to me, I forgive you. But I know that someday God will make you hit the son of a chief on the head. Then the chief will punish you.

Proverbs and old sayings about bad, heads, god

The ear does not surpass the head.

Proverbs and old sayings about heads

Do not put a grass turban on my head.

Proverbs and old sayings about heads

When the head of the family dies, that family breaks up.

Proverbs and old sayings about family, heads

The farmer is one but those who eat fruits of his labour are many.

Proverbs and old sayings

Thou hast a head and so hath a pin.

Proverbs and old sayings Swedish about heads

All are not men that wear trousers.

Proverbs and old sayings Swedish about man

The public is an animal with many heads.

Proverbs and old sayings Swedish about heads, public

Old men carry the almanac in their bones.

Proverbs and old sayings Swedish about man, old, olderness

Wisdom is in the head and not in the beard.

Proverbs and old sayings Swedish about wisdom, heads

Who sits on your shoulders will try to climb on your head.

Proverbs and old sayings Swedish about heads

A peacock has too little in its head, too much in its tail.

Proverbs and old sayings Swedish about heads

A peacock has too little in its head and too much in its tail.

Proverbs and old sayings Swedish about heads

Amen, said the minister, he hit the old lady in the head with the New Testament.

Proverbs and old sayings Swedish about heads, old, olderness

You cannot prevent the birds of sadness from passing over your head, but you can prevent them from nesting in your hair.

Proverbs and old sayings Swedish about sadness, heads

Men will always lose the battle against cholera and bureaucracy.

Proverbs and old sayings Tibetan about man

The highest art is the art of living an ordinary life in an extraordinary manner.

Proverbs and old sayings Tibetan about art, magic, life

When all men say you are a dog, it is time to bark.

Proverbs and old sayings about man, time