If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
Proverbs and old sayings West African
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Before the bending arm straighten, or before the straighten arm bends.
Proverbs and old sayings
If the main timbers in the house are not straight, the smaller timber will be unsafe; and if the smaller timbers are not straight, the house will fall.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about home, house, fall
Crooked wood is straightened with fire.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about fire, fire brigade
A straight tree never lasts in the forest
Proverbs and old sayings
The straight way leads directly to the target.
Proverbs and old sayings Romanian
A lame crab walks straight.
Proverbs and old sayings Afghan
The river does not move straight because it is alone.
Proverbs and old sayings West African
A river doesn't run straight because there was nobody to advise it.
Proverbs and old sayings West African
That which got bent while growing when you straighten it, it breaks.
Proverbs and old sayings West African
When the shadow of a tree is bent, straighten the tree, not the shadow.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about shadow
You never know a line is zigzag until you put a straight line against it.
Proverbs and old sayings West African
The animal hide can best be straightened and smoothened when still fresh.
Proverbs and old sayings West African
The gourd's neck cannot be straightened in it's old age, it can only be broken.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about olderness, age, old
A crooked cornstalk can have a straight ear.
Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans
To plough a straight furrow, never look back.
Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans
The shortest distance between two points is a straight line.
Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans
It is not easy to straighten in the oak the crook that grew in the sapling.
Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans
Branches straighten.
Proverbs and old sayings
He hit me, started to cry, and went straight to the judge to sue me.
Proverbs and old sayings about judges
