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Stones decay; words last.

Proverbs and old sayings about word

Stones hurled to the sky. Don't get angry if you get hit.

Proverbs and old sayings about sky, contentment

Stones or bread, one must have something in hand for the dogs.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

Stone dead hath no fellow.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

Stones will remain for ever while water passes.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about water

If a man believes in a stone, that stone will serve him well.

Proverbs and old sayings about man

Whether the pitcher strike the stone or the stone the pitcher, the pitcher suffers.

Proverbs and old sayings

A stone thrown at the right time is better than a stone thrown at the wrong time.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about time, bad, rightness

Whether the pitcher strikes the stone, or the stone the pitcher, it is bad for the pitcher.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about bad luck, bad

Grain by grain, a loaf; stone by stone, a castle.

Proverbs and old sayings Serbian

When a blind man tells you he is going to throw a stone, know that his foot is on the stone.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about blind, man, contentment

When a stone hits glass, the glass breaks. When glass hits a stone, the glass breaks.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian

If the pitcher knocks against a stone, woe to the pitcher; and if the stone knocks against the pitcher, woe to the pitcher.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

If someone hits you with a stone, hit him with bread; your bread will return to you and his stone will return to him.

Proverbs and old sayings Tunisian about contentment

If a stone falls on an egg, it is bad for the egg; if an egg falls onto a stone, it is still bad for the egg.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish about bad luck, bad

If you shoot your arrows at stones, you will damage them.

Proverbs and old sayings Australian about contentment

Instruction in youth is like engraving in stone.

Proverbs and old sayings Columbian about youth

Abundance will make cotton pull a stone.

Proverbs and old sayings

A rolling stone gathers no moss

Proverbs and old sayings British about old, olderness

Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones

Proverbs and old sayings British about old, olderness