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What good is a something big that is still needed to be searched, if there is something small that is in your hands?

Proverbs and old sayings about good, good luck

A person's reputation is like his shadow-sometimes it follows and sometimes it precedes him; and sometimes it is smaller and sometimes it is bigger than him.

Proverbs and old sayings French about prestige, shadow, people

The mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small.

Proverbs and old sayings German about god

If you don't aspire to great things, you won't attain small things.

Proverbs and old sayings about things

Humor is an important asset: it means understanding and self-criticism. where humor is absent, you'll find small-mindedness.

Proverbs and old sayings about humor, criticism, absent, self-control

If you have to swallow a frog, try not to think about it. If you have to swallow two frogs, don't swallow the smaller one first.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

The mills of god grind slowly, yet they grind exceedingly small.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about god

Ten thousand of the greatest faults in our neighbours is of less consequence than the smallest of our own.

Proverbs and old sayings about consequences

Men who watch their fortune grow find their houses too small.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about wealth, man

The sat one doesn't understand the hungry one: for one the soup is too thin, for the other - the pearls are too small.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian

A tree that grows in the shade of another one will die small.

Proverbs and old sayings

What is the use of a big wide world when your shoes are too small?

Proverbs and old sayings Serbian about use, world

When you go to steal a sheep and you're succeeding, take a big one because the small one will grow.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

If the olive trees blossom in April, you'll have enough to collect them with barrels; if they bud in May, you'll have enough to fill a small measure; but if as late as June, you'll only be collecting handfuls.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about measure

There is nothing like deprivation to generate thanks for small mercies.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about nothing

Three things must epigrams, like bees, have all, A sting, and honey, and a body small.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about body, things

Knowledge, humbles a great person, astonishes the common, and puffs up the small.

Proverbs and old sayings about common sense, knowledge, people

A frog living at the bottom of the well thinks that the sky is as small as a cooking pot lid.

Proverbs and old sayings Vietnamese about sky