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When sleeping women wake, mountains move.

Proverbs and old sayings Tahitian

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverbs and old sayings

With talking the cheese ship won't move.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish about talking

If the wind does not blow, the leaves do not move.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish

The stone will not move from its place unless head is put to head.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish about heads

Without wind, the ears of the grass do not move.

Proverbs and old sayings

It is no disgrace to move out of the way of the elephant.

Proverbs and old sayings Vietnamese

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948), leader of the Indian independence movement

Proverbs and old sayings British about independence, blind, world, old, olderness

When a stiff-necked bull stands with its four legs planted firmly and refuses to move, you cannot make it go ahead only by pulling it by the reins and using your whip.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are moveable, and those that move.

Proverbs and old sayings

If your neighbor visits Mecca once, watch out for him. If he makes a second visit, you had better avoid him. After the third visit you had better move to another street.

Proverbs and old sayings

He who can sit upon a stone and feed himself should not move.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

Man is like a bird: a bird can fly higher and higher, but only if its wings continue to move without stopping.

Proverbs and old sayings about man

If you are travelling towards the East, you will inevitably move away from the West.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese

A man's life is a circle from childhood to childhood, and thus it is in everything where the power moves.

Proverbs and old sayings about childhood, power, life, americans, man

Three kinds of people die poor: those who divorce, those who incur debts, and those who move around too much.

Proverbs and old sayings about people

Our passions are the winds that propel our vessel. Our reason is the pilot that steers her. Without winds the vessel would not move and without a pilot she would be lost.

Proverbs and old sayings about reason