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Without sowing a single wheat you would not harvest thousand ones.

Proverbs and old sayings Azere

A Single hand cannot wash itself even in the Danube river.

Proverbs and old sayings Bulgarian

A single tree cannot make a forest.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

Approach heaven with a single stride.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

A cloth is not woven from a single thread.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

A single beam cannot support a great house.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about home, house

A single tree makes no forest; one string makes no music.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about music

A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about conversation, man

A single untried popular remedy often throws the scientific doctor into hysterics.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about conversation, books, man

A man of honor will feel ashamed by a single question to which he does not know the answer.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about question, man

Beauty draws with a single hair.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about beauty

Misfortunes never come single.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

A single day grants what a whole hear denies.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about day

Rather a single grape for me than a brace of figs for thee.

Proverbs and old sayings French

A single stroke don't fell the oak.

Proverbs and old sayings German

He who marries does well, but who remains single does better.

Proverbs and old sayings German

A single finger cannot catch fleas.

Proverbs and old sayings Hatian

There's little value in the single cow.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about value

A handstaff of holly, a buailtin of hazel, a single sheaf and a clean floor.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish