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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

Walk with your slippers until you can find your shoes.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

The cobbler always wears the worst shoes

Proverbs and old sayings about old, olderness

Without investigating the water, don't take off your shoes.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about water

Try out your shoes on your feet -- gauge people against their misfortune.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about people

Before you buy shoes, measure your feet.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about measure, commerce

Old shoes wear best.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans, old, olderness

You need more than dancing shoes to be a dancer.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about need, americans

Came back with Hunain's shoes. meaning: Came back with nothing.

Proverbs and old sayings about nothing

I complained because I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet.

Proverbs and old sayings about man

Kill a cow to donate shoes.

Proverbs and old sayings

Reshape one's feet to fit into new shoes.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

Regular feet can't be affected by irregular shoes.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

I was angered, for I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about man

You looked high and low till your iron shoes were worn out but still to no avail. Then you chanced upon it without ever looking.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

Look not out for dead men's shoes.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about man

Not every wood will make wooden shoes.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

It is of no use making shoes for geese.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about use

A pair of light shoes is not all that is needed for dancing.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about light

He who waits for dead men's shoes, may have to go long barefoot.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about man