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A bar of iron continually ground becomes a needle.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

An iron rod can be ground down to become a needle.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

Perseverance can reduce an iron rod to a sewing needle.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about perseverance

A girl without a needle is like a cat without a claw.

Proverbs and old sayings Estonian

The point of the needle must pass first.

Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian

Evil penetrates like a needle and then becomes like an oak tree.

Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian

The bad neighbour gives a needle without thread.

Proverbs and old sayings about bad luck, bad

The needle, small and thin, can support a man and his family.

Proverbs and old sayings about family, man

He looks for a needle in a bundle of hay.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

Where the needle goes, the thread follows.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian

The sieve says to the needle, You have a hole in your tail.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian

Making money is like digging with a needle.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about money

You can see heaven through the eye of the needle.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese

Getting money is like digging with a needle. Spending it is like water soaking into the sand.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about money, water

You are needlessly alarmed.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

The needle makes clothes but stays naked.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about clothes

Every pedlar praises his own needles.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese

Every peddler speaks highly about his own needles.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese

A bad neighbor will give you a needle with no thread.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about bad luck, bad

The thief proceeds from a needle to gold, and from gold to the gallows.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about thieves