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Wild ducks and tomorrow both come without calling.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian

When the wild pig’s running (inadvertently) crushes the seed shells, the wild birds celebrate.

Proverbs and old sayings

Not the cry, but the flight of the wild duck, leads the flock to fly and follow.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about flight

You've seen many Komo, but you haven't seen the wild beast.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about haven, contentment

The attacks of a wild beast cannot be averted with only bare hands.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

One doesn't follow a wild beast into its lair.

Proverbs and old sayings Bantu

Better to be watched by a wild animal than a nosey man.

Proverbs and old sayings Berber about man

When the cuckoo sings, the wild boar loses its old coat, and the hen lays an egg without a false nest. And the ram's horns round out - he looks like a general.

Proverbs and old sayings about old, olderness

You must walk a long while behind a wild goose before you find an ostrich feather.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about contentment

Run as hard as a wild beast if you will, but you won't get any reward greater than that destined for you.

Proverbs and old sayings Egyptian about reward, contentment

A wild goose never laid a tame egg.

Proverbs and old sayings

A wild goose never reared a tame gosling.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

Twenty years a child twenty years running wild twenty years a mature man-and after that, praying.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about children, man

A wild goose may be worth a hundred pieces of gold, but you first have to spend three pieces of gold to buy an arrow.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about commerce, contentment

Where there are no tigers, a wild cat is very self-important.

Proverbs and old sayings Korean about self-control

The girl is more inviting who smells of wild thyme than she who smells of musk.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

Only thin dogs become wild.

Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy

When you treat someone like a wild cat, he will steal your chickens.

Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about contentment

The mule wasn't born wild, the stick made her that way.

Proverbs and old sayings Mexican

The wild pear has blossomed: the kid goat no longer suffers.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian