On a long journey even a straw is heavy.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian
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The same fire purifies gold and consumes straw.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about fire, fire brigade
The same fire which purifies gold consumes straw.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about fire, fire brigade
From a bad paymaster take straw--i.e. any trifle.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about bad luck, bad
He who has a straw tail is always in fear of its catching fire.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about fear, fire, fire brigade
Man dat carry straw no fe fool wid fire.
Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican about fire, fire brigade, man
A man of straw is still a man.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about man
To wear two pairs of straw sandals at once.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese
Never watch a bonfire wearing a straw coat.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese
Even a straw becomes heavy, if you carry it far enough.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin
A man and a sheaf of straw make two.
Proverbs and old sayings Maltese about man
Whoever can walk on water is probably made of straw.
Proverbs and old sayings Persian about water
Better straw, than nothing.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about nothing
Much straw and little corn.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese
A man of straw is better than a woman of gold.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about woman, man
From the straws in the air we judge of the wind.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about air, judges
Who has skirts of straw needs fear the fire.
Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about fear, fire, fire brigade
It is a dangerous fire that begins in the bed straw.
Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about fire, fire brigade
Let an ill man lie in thy straw, and he looks to be thy heir.
Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about lie, man
Drowing man clutches at straw.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian about man
