Search in folklore: sand

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Little drops of water, little grains of sand, make the mighty ocean and the pleasant land.

Proverbs and old sayings German about water

Knowledge without wisdom is like water in the sand.

Proverbs and old sayings Guinean about knowledge, wisdom, water

There is thick sandal leather on his face.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian about face

The sandal tree perfumes the axe that fells it.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian

It is easier to cover our feet with sandals than to cover the earth with carpets.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about earth

Who builds on the mob builds on sand.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

Who builds upon the people, builds upon sand.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about people

Who offends writes on sand; who is offended, on marble.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

A sailor must have his eye trained to the rocks and sands as well as the north star.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about rocks, celebrity

To wear two pairs of straw sandals at once.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese

Spending it is like pouring water into sand.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about water

The go-between wears out a thousand sandals.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese

He who is desperate will squeeze oil out of a grain of sand.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese

You count the sand.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

You are but sowing in sand.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

You would weave a rope of sand.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

He is but a poor husbandman, who sows in sand.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

As the sands of the desert are to the weary traveler, so are words to he who loveth silence.

Proverbs and old sayings Moroccan about silence

Every sandpiper praises his own swamp.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian

Every sandpiper praises its own swamp.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian