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Bad news proceeds by wings, good news hardly walks.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian about bad luck, bad, good, good luck

Though the fox runs, the pullets have wings.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

A lie has no legs, but scandalous wings.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about lie

Words have no wings but they can fly a thousand miles.

Proverbs and old sayings Korean

Even though words have no wings, they can still fly a thousand miles. Even if you encounter a stone bridge, tap it first before crossing. Through old things, we learn new things.

Proverbs and old sayings Korean about things, old, olderness

Sincerity gives wings to power.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about sincerity, power

You are looking for wings in a wolf.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

You are looking for wings in a wolf. [You hunt for impossibilities. ]

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

His wit got wings and would have flown, But poverty still kept him down.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about poverty

Words are like newly hatched eggs: they already have wings.

Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy

Money has wings.

Proverbs and old sayings Maltese about money

The wagtail hops and flaps its wings, but the male dove feeds and coos.

Proverbs and old sayings Maltese

God did not give wings to scorpions.

Proverbs and old sayings Mexican about god

Angels bend down their wings to a seeker of knowledge.

Proverbs and old sayings Moroccan about knowledge

Renounce a friend who covers you with his wings and destroys you with his beak.

Proverbs and old sayings

I am being carried on great wings across the sky.

Proverbs and old sayings about being, sky

For an ant to have wings would be his undoing.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian

Fear gives wings.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about fear

Riches have wings.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about wealth

A bad rumour flies on wings.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about bad luck, bad