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Eggs don't teach the hens anything.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian

Do not teach a pike to swim, a pike knows his own science.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about science

What johnny will not teach himself, johnny will never know.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian

Hold your children with your heart but teach them with your hands.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about children, heart

If you teach a Hutu in flinging a spear he will definitely send it into your stomach.

Proverbs and old sayings Rwandan

Experience may teach a fool.

Proverbs and old sayings about experience

Experience teaches fools.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about experience

He that teaches himself has a fool for his master.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

Who teaches another, acquires more knowledge.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about knowledge

Asparagus and mushrooms teach a cook humility.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about humility

Pigs and children will turn out the way you teach them.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about children

Misfortune teaches us to pray.

Proverbs and old sayings about pray

What beats you is what teaches you.

Proverbs and old sayings

You can't teach old dogs to sit.

Proverbs and old sayings Swedish about old, olderness

Never offer to teach a fish to swim.

Proverbs and old sayings

In teaching others we teach ourselves.

Proverbs and old sayings about teaching

He who does not research has nothing to teach.

Proverbs and old sayings about research, nothing

To teach well, we need not say all that we know, Successful teachers are effective in spite of the psychological theories they suffer under.

Proverbs and old sayings about teachers, suffering, need

Whatever you teach, be brief; what is quickly said the mind readily receives and faithfully retains, while everything superfluous runs over as from a full container. Who knows much says least.

Proverbs and old sayings about mind

When God wants to punish an idiot, He teaches them a few words of Hebrew.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about god