Search in folklore: substance

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Substance is not enough, accident is also required.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

What lives on its own substance and dies when it devours itself?
Candle

Riddles

Catch not at the shadow, and lose the substance.

Proverbs and old sayings Korean about shadow

The shadow for the substance.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about shadow

A coin in an empty barrel, makes a lot of noise. People with little substance talk a lot.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about people

Be not deceived with the first appearance of things, for show is not substance.

Proverbs and old sayings English about things

Even though the peel of the palm nut has no pulpy substance in it, it is stripped off all the same.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan

Hard things alone will not make a wall. [Some soft substance must unite them: and so with hard men--to fraternize they require some soft influence from others. ]

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about influence, things, man