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To threaten the brave with death is like promising water to a duck.

Proverbs and old sayings about death, water

All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are moveable, and those that move.

Proverbs and old sayings

Men have three ears: one on the left of the head, one on the right of the head, and one in the heart.

Proverbs and old sayings Armenian about heads, rightness, heart, man

Agreement with two people, lamentation with three.

Proverbs and old sayings about people

These three take crooked ways: carts, boats, and musicians.

Proverbs and old sayings

There are three things that refresh the heart and reduce your grief water, flowers, and a beautiful woman.

Proverbs and old sayings about sadness, flowers, things, heart, woman, water

I have to learn how to walk on three legs says the hyena for when I am old.

Proverbs and old sayings about old, olderness

A pregnant woman is not afraid if you threaten her with what you made her pregnant with.

Proverbs and old sayings about woman

The thread must be longer than the needle.

Proverbs and old sayings Basques

More people are threatened than are beaten up.

Proverbs and old sayings Basques about people

There are three things that are too amazing for me, four that I do not understand: the way of an eagle in the sky, the way of a snake on a rock, the way of a ship on the high seas, and the way of a man with a maiden.

Proverbs and old sayings about rocks, sky, things, man

He that has a hawk has three hundred partridges.

Proverbs and old sayings Bulgarian

An axe without a shaft is no threat to the forest.

Proverbs and old sayings Bulgarian

Mother Nature, time and patience are the three best doctors.

Proverbs and old sayings Bulgarian about nature, patience, mother, time

A kind word warms for three winters.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about word

The hardest step is over the threshold.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

A cloth is not woven from a single thread.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

There is no silver here: three hundred taels.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

A sly rabbit will have three openings to its den.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

After three days without reading, talk becomes flavorless.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about day