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To rule the mountains is to rule the river.

Proverbs and old sayings French about rules

The mountaineer's ass carries wine and drinks water.

Proverbs and old sayings French about wine, water

The sheep on the mountain is higher than the bull on the plain.

Proverbs and old sayings French

Even God cannot make two mountains without a valley in between.

Proverbs and old sayings about god

Gold lies deep in the mountain, dirt on the highway.

Proverbs and old sayings German

The mountains make the mist and the valleys must consume them.

Proverbs and old sayings German

People working on the slope of a mountain do not look at the buttocks of one another.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about people

Love is like fog -- there is no mountain on which it does not rest.

Proverbs and old sayings about love

You do not run into mountains, but people yes.

Proverbs and old sayings about people

People don’t trip on mountains, but they sometimes stumble on stones.

Proverbs and old sayings about people

You do not stumble over a mountain, but you do over a stone.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian

When a camel is at the foot of a mountain only then judge his height.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about judges

Under the mountains is silver and gold, But under the night sky, hunger and cold.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about hunger, sky, night

Doubt makes the mountain which faith can move.

Proverbs and old sayings about doubt, faith

More hair than tit, like a mountain heifer.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

Poor men take to the sea, the rich to the mountains.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about wealth, man

Two things that go for loss-turf on a mountain and the wisdom of a poor man.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about wisdom, things, man

Friends may meet, but mountains never greet.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

The mountains are in labour, and bring forth a mouse.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

Even dust amassed will grow into a mountain.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese