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Crooked iron may be straightened with a hammer.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Danish)
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Crooked logs make straight fires.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (English)
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Crooked wood burns quite as well as straight.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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Crooked wood is straightened with fire.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Sicilian)
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Cross even a stone bridge after you've tested it.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Korean)
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Cross in a crowd and the crocodile won't eat you.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Malagasy)
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Crosses are ladders that lead to heaven.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Malagasy)
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Crosses are ladders which lead to heaven.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Malagasy)
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Crows are black everywhere.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Malagasy)
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Crows are never the whiter for washing themselves.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Malagasy)
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Crows bewail the dead sheep, and then eat them.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Malagasy)
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Crows do not peck out crow's eyes.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Portuguese)
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Crows everywhere are equally black.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Chinese)
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Cry and the whole world cries with you.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Russian)
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Cry not out before you are hurt.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Russian)
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Cultivate a heart of love that knows no anger.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Cambodian)
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Cultivate not a barren soil.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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Cultivate the garden within.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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Cunning has little honour.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Danish)
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Cunning men's cloaks sometimes fall.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian)
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Cunning surpasses strength.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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Curiosity killed the cat.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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Curious Varvara's nose was torn off.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Russian)
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Curse your wife at evening, sleep alone at night.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Chinese)
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Cursed cows have short horns.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Chinese)
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Curses are like processions: they return to whence they set out.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian)
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Curses are like young chickens,
And still come home to roost!
- Proverb,
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Arabian), quoted by Bulwer-Lytton "The Lady of Lyons", act V, sc. 2
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Curses on accounts with relations.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Spanish)
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Curses, like chickens, always come home to roost.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Spanish)
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Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Spanish)
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Custom becomes law.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Spanish)
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Custom in infancy becomes nature in old age.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Spanish)
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Custom makes all things easy.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Spanish)
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Customers are jade; merchandise is grass.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Chinese)
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Cut down the tree that you are able to.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Russian)
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Cut off the dog's tail, he remains a dog.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian)
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Cut your coat according to your cloth.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Dutch, German, Spanish)
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Cut your coat to suit your cloth.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Dutch, German, Spanish)
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Cutting off a mule's ears doesn't make it a horse.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Creole)
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Damage suffered makes you knowing, but seldom rich.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Danish)
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Dance to the tune that is played.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Spanish)
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Danger and delight grow on one stalk.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (English)
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Danger is next neighbor to security.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (English)
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Dangerous enemies will meet again in narrow streets.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Chinese)
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Darkness and night are mothers of thought.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Dutch)
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Darkness reigns at the foot of the lighthouse.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Japanese)
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Daughter-in-law hates mother-in-law.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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Daughters are brittle ware.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Dutch)
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Daughters are easy to rear, but hard to marry.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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Daughters may be seen but not heard.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Dutch)
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