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He that goes barefoot must not plant thorns.

Proverbs and old sayings English

If the brain sows not corn, it plants thistles.

Proverbs and old sayings English about brain

He that plants trees loves others besides himself.

Proverbs and old sayings English

One who plants grapes by the road side, and one who marries a pretty woman, share the same problem.

Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian about woman

If you plant, you harvest.

Proverbs and old sayings

He that will bare-foot go must not plant a garden of thistle.

Proverbs and old sayings French about garden

Friendship is a plant we must often water.

Proverbs and old sayings German about friendship, water

Patience is a bitter plant but it has a sweet fruit.

Proverbs and old sayings German about bitter, patience

Wherever there is a pretty spot, the devil plants a monastery or a lord.

Proverbs and old sayings German about devil

A lucky person is someone who plants pebbles and harvests potatoes.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek about people

A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek about society, man, old, olderness

A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek about society, man, old, olderness

Anger in a house is like a worm in a plant.

Proverbs and old sayings about anger, home, house

In a treeless country, the castor-oil plant is a big tree.

Proverbs and old sayings about country

In a treeless country, the castor plant is a big tree.

Proverbs and old sayings about country

A lawsuit is a fruit-tree planted in a lawyer's garden.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about garden

Patience is a plant that does not grow in everyone's garden.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about patience, garden

It is not spring until you can plant your foot upon twelve daisies.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about spring

Love is like a rice plant; transplanted, it can grow elsewhere.

Proverbs and old sayings about love

You think you are strong like the corn plant, yet the bean vine is already choking you.

Proverbs and old sayings