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A single roll of taro top is delicious if seasoned with affection.

Proverbs and old sayings Tahitian about affection

A single hair hides the mountain in the distance.

Proverbs and old sayings Thai

Landing a single punch on your enemies nose is more satisfying than hearing well-intentioned advice from your elders.

Proverbs and old sayings Tibetan about enemies, advice

We all end up in a single bed sooner or later.

Proverbs and old sayings about end

There is not a single season without fruit.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish about season

A single advantage is worth a thousand sorceries.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish

It is easy for the single guy to divorce his wife.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish about wife

A single bad experience is worth a thousand threats.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish about experience, bad luck, bad

When hitting the horn of a single cow, the horns of a thousand cows hurt.

Proverbs and old sayings

Nine gamblers could not feed a single rooster.

Proverbs and old sayings Yugoslavian

A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and rop makes an inundation.

Proverbs and old sayings

Bones and flesh of the martyrs lie buried in earth, but their revolutionary spirit and single-hearted fidelity remain alive.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about fidelity, spirit, earth, lie

The devil's in the cards, said Sam, four aces and not a single trump.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about devil

People who have not secret agreement are beaten by a single club.

Proverbs and old sayings about secret, people

Better to have one thousand enemies outside the house than to have one single enemy inside it.

Proverbs and old sayings Lebanese about enemies, home, house

Never in speech with a foolish knave shouldst thou waste a single word.

Proverbs and old sayings about word

If children's prayer had any effect, there wouldn't be a single teacher alive.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about teachers, children