Search in folklore: picture

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A picture is worth a thousand words, and yet picture books are for infants.

Proverbs and old sayings English about books, word

A beggar talked to a picture, but picture answered nothing.

Proverbs and old sayings Polish about nothing

One picture is worth a thousand words.

Proverbs and old sayings British about word

Every picture tells a story

Proverbs and old sayings British about old, olderness

A picture is worth a thousand words

Proverbs and old sayings about word, old, olderness

A picture is worth ten thousand words.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about word

You can't fill your belly painting pictures of bread.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about painting, contentment

One picture is worth ten thousand words.

Proverbs and old sayings English about word

You can't eat the rice cake in the picture.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about contentment

Forgiving the unrepentant is like drawing pictures on water.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about drawing, water

A picture is a poem wanting words.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about word

A good painter need not give a name to his picture, a bad one must.

Proverbs and old sayings Polish about name, need, bad luck, bad, good, good luck

He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about ambition, conscience