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Threads do not break for being fine, but for being gouty and ill-spun.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about being

Thread off the world? shirt for naked.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about world

Begin to weave and God will give the thread.

Proverbs and old sayings German about god

The thread follows the needle.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

When the threads unite, they can tie the lion.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

If the needle doesn't pass, the thread doesn't follow.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

A needle cannot hold two threads or a mind two thoughts.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about mind

It is the path of the needle that the thread is accustomed to follow.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

The thread must be longer than the needle.

Proverbs and old sayings Basques

A cloth is not woven from a single thread.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

The lotus root may be severed, but its fibered threads are still connected.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

Short flax makes long thread.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

It hangs upon a silken thread.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

Every day a thread makes a skein in the year.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about day

Friends tie thier purse with a cobweb thread.

Proverbs and old sayings English

When a man's coat is threadbare it is easy to pick a hole in it.

Proverbs and old sayings English about man

For a web begun God sends thread.

Proverbs and old sayings French about god

Where the thread is weakest it breaks.

Proverbs and old sayings French

He who hold the thread holds the ball.

Proverbs and old sayings French

The bad neighbour gives a needle without thread.

Proverbs and old sayings about bad luck, bad