Search in folklore: oxen

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Water for oxen, wine for kings.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about wine, water

The Bad tax-collector will sell one of your oxen, the good one - both.

Proverbs and old sayings Bulgarian about commerce, bad luck, bad, good, good luck

A man must plough with such oxen as he hath.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about man

Men know not all their faults, oxen all their strength.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about man

Old oxen have stiff horns.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about old, olderness

Even he gets on who is drawn by oxen.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

Old swine have hard snouts, old oxen hard horns.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about old, olderness

The horse that you love draws more than four oxen.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about love

Beauty draws more than oxen.

Proverbs and old sayings English about beauty

If you have ploughed with oxen, married a widow and never said a bad word - surely you go to heaven.

Proverbs and old sayings Finnish about word, bad luck, bad

It is not the big oxen that do the best day's work.

Proverbs and old sayings French about work, day

The cow that does not eat with the oxen, either eats before or after them.

Proverbs and old sayings

Old oxen tread hard.

Proverbs and old sayings German about old, olderness

Tired oxen must tread hard.

Proverbs and old sayings German

Nature draws stronger then seven oxen.

Proverbs and old sayings German about nature

He who ploughs with young oxen, makes crooked furrows.

Proverbs and old sayings German

The fingers of the housewife do more than a yoke of oxen.

Proverbs and old sayings German

It is easy to push a cart drawn by twelve oxen.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

In the villages where there are no oxen, the sheep's feet seem strong.

Proverbs and old sayings

Wives and oxen have no friends.

Proverbs and old sayings