Search in folklore: shake

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Beginning and ending shake hands.

Proverbs and old sayings German about beginning

You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek

Law is costly; shake hands and be friends.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about law

Not all that shakes falls.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

Every wind does not shake down the nut.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

All that shakes falls not.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian

The tree in the middle of the road is shaken by everyone.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

Don't shake the tree when the pears fall off themselves.

Proverbs and old sayings Czechoslovak about fall

A great leap gives a great shake.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

Trust not a skittish horse, nor a great lord, when they shake their heads.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about heads

A quarrel is like buttermilk: once it's out of the churn, the more you shake it, the more sour it grows.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

It ill becomes a carpenter to be heavy-handed, a smith to be shake-handed, or a physician to be tenderhearted.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish