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Write injuries in sand, kindnesses in marble.

Proverbs and old sayings French

Friendship is a furrow in the sand.

Proverbs and old sayings Taiwanese about friendship

Write the bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you on a piece of marble.

Proverbs and old sayings Arab about things, bad luck, bad, good, good luck

It is like juggling sand (Ian Murray)

Proverbs and old sayings British about old, olderness

A sandal is not a shoe; a cap is not a turban.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan

United we are a rock, divided we are sand.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about rocks

Knowledge without wisdom is like water without sand.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about knowledge, wisdom, water

It's only the ant that hears the whispers of the sand.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

If you do not have sandals, find some, if you do not have gun powder, find some for a score to settle with you on the battle grounds.

Proverbs and old sayings

Even an ass will not fall twice in the same quick sand.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about fall, americans

If the water is available you need not clean up with sand.

Proverbs and old sayings about need, water

Insults must be written in sand and compliments carved in stone.

Proverbs and old sayings about insults

A building of sand falls as you build it.

Proverbs and old sayings Cameroonian

Shoot at someone's shadow with sand.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about shadow

The torment of envy is like a grain of sand in the eye.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about envy

Many grains of sand will sink a ship.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

Like seeks like--a scabbed horse and a sandy dike.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

Words are but sands; 'tis money buys lands.

Proverbs and old sayings French about money

Write injuries in the sand, kindnesses in marble.

Proverbs and old sayings French

What you give, is written in sand; what you take, with an iron hand.

Proverbs and old sayings German