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A lazy tailor finds his thread too long.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek

Where the needle goes, the thread follows.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian

To a weaving that has begun, God sends threads.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about god

The stitch is lost unless the thread be knotted.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

The stitch is lost unless the thread is knotted.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

The purse of loved ones is tied with a gossamer thread.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

One has woven the thread, another has drawn it forth.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

As you have arranged the thread so must you weave it.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

Little by little the cotton thread becomes a turban.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian

A bad neighbor will give you a needle with no thread.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about bad luck, bad

The thread breaks where it is weakest.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian

Friends tie their purse with a cobweb thread.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian

A thread from everyone will make a shirt for the needy.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian

If everyone gives one thread, the poor man will have a shirt.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about man

A thread will tie an honest man better than a chain a rogue.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about man

Who doesn't make a knot at the end of the thread, loses the stitch more than once.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about end

The best cloth has uneven threads.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

By the thread we unwind the skein.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

Needle and thread are half clothing.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

The thread breaks where it is thinnest.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish