Search in folklore: measure

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Sell high and give a fair measure.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about measure, commerce

A lady has to be of the right cut and the right measure to make a pretty figure.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about rightness, measure

Weight and measure save a man toil.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about measure, man

There is no such witness as a good measure of wine.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about measure, wine, good, good luck

Little by little fills up the measure.

Proverbs and old sayings about measure

You can't measure the whole world with your own yardstick.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about measure, world

The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.

Proverbs and old sayings British about measure, wisdom

If wisdom is measured by the size of the beard then the goat is a philosopher king.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about wisdom

Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire.

Proverbs and old sayings Arab about measure

One measures the towers by their shadows and great people by those who envy them.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about envy, people

Better twice measured than once wrong.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about bad

He measures others by his own standard.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

Men are not measured in inches.

Proverbs and old sayings English about man

Reputation is commonly measured by the acre.

Proverbs and old sayings English about prestige

Desperate times call for desperate measures.

Proverbs and old sayings English

You can eat and drink with your family but not count and measure.

Proverbs and old sayings German about measure, family, drinking

Ten measures of beauty descended on the world; nine went to jerusalem, and one to the rest of the world.

Proverbs and old sayings about world, beauty

Injury is to be measured by malice.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

He measures others with his own yard.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about garden

To chalk out preventive measures in good time before an emergency is much warranted.

Proverbs and old sayings about time, good, good luck