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One decade is long enough to change the looks of mountains and rivers.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about change

When the shooting starts climb on your camel and head for the mountaintops.

Proverbs and old sayings about heads

The wind sweeping through the tower heralds a rising storm in the mountain.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

A vacant mind is open to all suggestions, as a hollow mountain returns all sounds.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about mind

Small ills are the fountains of most of our groans. Men trip not on mountains, they stumble on stones.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about man

Living at a river, one comes to know the nature of the fish therein; Dwelling by a mountain, one learns to recognize the language of the birds thereupon.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about language, nature

If you are poor, though you dwell in the busy marketplace, no one will inquire about you; if you are rich, though you dwell in the heart of the mountains, you will have distant relatives.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about wealth, heart

Too many boatmen will run the boat up to the top of the mountains.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese

The goodness of the father reaches higher than a mountain; that of the mother goes deeper than the ocean.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about mother

I have been to the end of the earth. I have been to the end of the water. I have been to the end of the sky. I have been to the end of the mountains. I have found none that are not my friends.

Proverbs and old sayings about end, earth, sky, water, americans

For our sins God has created three enemies for us: mice in the house, the fox in the mountains, and a priest in our village.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about sin, enemies, home, house, god, americans

Though you see me with this coat, I have another up the mountain.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish