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A moonlight has a bottom.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

The light of a thousand stars doesn't equal the light of the moon.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about light, celebrity, stars, moon

If you cry because you miss the sun, your tears will not let you see the moon.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about tears, moon, sun

Only a fool believes that the clouds obscure the splendour of the moon. It has shined behind them for eternity.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about eternity, moon

Give some people everything you have and they still want the moon.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about moon, people, americans

Change of fortune hurts a wise man no more that a change of the moon.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about change, moon, wealth, americans, man

Don't judge any man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about judges, americans, man

There is no reason for war that reasonable men can't settle. Clouds and thunder don't always result in rain. A small cloud can hide the sun and the moon.

Proverbs and old sayings Armenian about reason, moon, war, rain, sun, man

Do not judge your neighbor until you walk two moons in his moccasins.

Proverbs and old sayings about judges

One's shadow grows larger than life when admired by the light of the moon.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about shadow, moon, light, life

The bad fortune of Zoza: in winter it sees not the sun and in summer it sees not the moon.

Proverbs and old sayings about moon, wealth, sun, bad luck, bad

What is done under the four moons need never be recalled nor regretted.

Proverbs and old sayings about need

If a man looks upon your wife pluck out his eye and cook it in a goodly stew. If he eats the stew his manhood will wither and fall off in the next moon.

Proverbs and old sayings Gypsy about gypsies, moon, fall, wife, man

If you stab out the eye of thy neighbor cut off two finger and dip them in honey. Cook them in lemon curd and present them to his family in a pigeon pie. If they dine on a full moon his eye will sprout again from it's socket.

Proverbs and old sayings Gypsy about present, gypsies, family, moon

When the sun shines on thee, thou needest not care for the moon.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about moon, sun

The bull that is used to the sun shivers by the light of the moon.

Proverbs and old sayings Korean about moon, light, sun

Don't judge a man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins.

Proverbs and old sayings about judges, americans, man

A thorn that pierces the toe should be burned by the light of a new moon lest the devil possess the foot.

Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian about moon, light, devil

Seek truth in meditation, not in moldy books. Look in the sky to find the moon, not in the pond.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about meditation, books, moon, sky, truth

The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian