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He who has got experience can milk a running cow.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about experience

Anyone suffering from a running stomach is never afraid of the dark.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about suffering, dark

It's useless to tell a river to stop running; the best thing is to learn how to swim in the direction it's flowing.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about things

What is the use of running when we are on the wrong.

Proverbs and old sayings about bad, use

As long as I am running my father will still have a son.

Proverbs and old sayings Brazilian

Virtue: climbing a hill; vice: running down.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about vice, virtue

Of all the thirty-six alternatives, running away is the best.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

One can't shoe a running horse.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

You can't shoe a horse while it is running.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

The one with a running nose always wants to blow someone else's.

Proverbs and old sayings French

What is the use of running when we are not on the right road?

Proverbs and old sayings German about use, rightness

If the wolf would cease his running, the people would cease their shouting.

Proverbs and old sayings German about people

There is no point in running ones head against the wall.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian about heads

Autumn days come quickly like the running of a hound on the moor.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about autumn, day

Twenty years a child twenty years running wild twenty years a mature man-and after that, praying.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about children, man

From still water God keep me; from running water I will keep myself.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about water, god

A running man can slit a thousand throats in one night.

Proverbs and old sayings about night, man

Presumption first blinds a man, and then sets him a running.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about man

Fleeing and running are not the same thing.

Proverbs and old sayings about things

A running horse needs no spur.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian