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Not everyone who sings a lullaby stays awake.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian

When the water goes uphill, the frog sings AbuAta.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about water

A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian

Water teaches us to weep, wine teaches us to sing.

Proverbs and old sayings Polish about wine, water

Martha sings well when she has had her fill.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese

The Frenchman sings well, when his throat is moistened.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese

Every one sings as he has the gift, and marries as he has the luck.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about gifts, bad luck, good luck

He that sings on Friday will weep on Sunday.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian

You cannot hang everything on a single peg.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian

A single Russian hair outweighs half a Pole.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian

Conversation shortens the distance, singing lightens the load.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about conversation

When we sing everybody hears us; when we sigh, nobody hears us.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian

Kame single, kame fair.

Proverbs and old sayings

Sweet sings each bird in his own grove.

Proverbs and old sayings

He's like the sing'd cat, better than he's bonny.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

The old nightingale sings better.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about old, olderness

Water does harm but wine makes you sing.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about wine, water

Tie the burden securely and go off singing.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about burden

You can't make a rattle with a single walnut in a sack.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

When the partridge sings in the stone quarry bring the wood into the haystack.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian