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Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant; but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about man

Even a tower a hundred yards tall has still its foundations on the ground.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

Do not measure others by your own yardstick.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about measure

If you are offered a span, do not take a couple of yards.

Proverbs and old sayings about couple

You can't measure the whole world with your own yardstick.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about measure, world

What has a foot on each side and one in the middle?

A yardstick.

Riddles