What is the use of a big wide world when your shoes are too small?
Proverbs and old sayings Serbian about use, world
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A shoemaker's wife and a smith's mare are always the worst shod.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about wife
If you are wearing shoes, you don't fear the thorns.
Proverbs and old sayings about fear
There's no hurry, said the shoemaker, he had gruel with his awl.
Proverbs and old sayings Swedish
Luxury begins the day a man starts wearing shoes.
Proverbs and old sayings about day, man
The shoemaker's child goes barefoot.
Proverbs and old sayings Turkish about children
If you stay at home you won't wear out your shoes.
Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about home
If a Jew cannot be a shoemaker, he will dream of being a professor.
Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about dream, being
Some people are like new shoes - the cheaper they are, the louder they squeak.
Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about people
Sell what you have bought while the dust is still on your shoes.
Proverbs and old sayings about commerce
What is the difference between an oak tree and a tight shoe?
One makes acorns, the other makes corns ache.
Riddles
A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about lie, truth, world
One who walks along a river frequently cannot avoid getting his shoes wet.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese
You can't look at the stars while you are walking if you have a stone in your shoe.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about celebrity, stars
Avoid suspicion: when you're walking through your neighbor's melon patch, don't tie your shoe.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about suspicion
If God sends you down a stony path, may he give you strong shoes.
Proverbs and old sayings Irish about god
The blacksmith's horse and the cobbler's wife are always the last to have shoes.
Proverbs and old sayings Irish about wife
Look for a thrifty woman -- even though it may cost you a pair of shoes.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about woman
