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Hard upon hard never made a good wall.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about good, good luck

Hard with hard makes not the stone wall.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

To preserve friendship one must build walls.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about friendship

To protest and knock one's head against the wall is what everybody can do.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about heads

Bushes have ears, walls have eyes.

Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican about eyes

Hog say, di fus water 'im cetch 'im walla.

Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican about water

Hog say, di fus water im cetch, I'm walla.

Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican about water

Nanny-goat neber? cratch him back till him see wall.

Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican

Silent worms dig holes in the walls.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese

Quiet worms will bore a hole in the wall.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about quiet

You talk to a wall!

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

A clear conscience is a wall of brass.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about conscience

Hard things alone will not make a wall.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about things

The names of fools are always written on walls.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

A mouse will put the finishing stroke to a castle wall.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

Hard things alone will not make a wall. [Some soft substance must unite them: and so with hard men--to fraternize they require some soft influence from others. ]

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about influence, things, man

If the walls were adamant, gold would take the town.

Proverbs and old sayings Liberian about city

Fortune is like a wall that falls on those who lean on it.

Proverbs and old sayings Mexican about wealth

A pig that is used to wallowing in the mud looks for a clean person to rub against.

Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian about people

Four walls make a man free.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about man