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A bolt does not always fall when it thunders.

Proverbs and old sayings German about fall

There's no rain without thunder, and no children born without pain.

Proverbs and old sayings about pain, rain, children

Like a thunderstroke from a clear sky.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian about sky

He who is struck by the lightning doesn't hear the thunder.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

Clouds that thunder seldom rain.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about rain

It never thunders but it rains.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

When it thunders, the thief becomes honest.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about thieves

Earthquakes, thunderbolts, fires, fathers.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese

It is not the thunder that causes the rain.

Proverbs and old sayings about rain

Far from Jupiter, far from his thunder.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

Whose life is as lightning, his words are as thunder.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about life

A deaf man may not have heard the thunder but he surely will see the rain.

Proverbs and old sayings Malian about rain, man

A clear sky fears not the thunder.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about sky

Unless the thunder strikes, a man won't cross himself.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about man

Don't hope for rain or thunder, hope for an agronomist.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about hope, rain

If the peasant doesn't hear the thunder he won't make the sign of the cross.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about peasantry

He that is fraid of a far--should never hear thunder.

Proverbs and old sayings

Winter thunder bodes summer hunger.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about hunger

I'll believe the thunder when I see the lightning.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian