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Wool Proverbs - page 2
If you don't collect the sheep early, you get neither the sheep nor the wool.
Sicilian Proverb
Even a ball of wool has a beginning.
Yiddish Proverb
Great cry and little wool, quoth the devil, when he sheared his hogs.
Dutch Proverb
An easy shepherd makes the wolf void wool.
French Proverb
Better lose the wool than the sheep.
French Proverb
He who goes to collect wool may come back shorn.
French Proverb
Some have the fame, and other card the wool.
Spanish Proverb
You seek wool from a donkey!
Latin Proverb
Would you shear a donkey for wool!
Latin Proverb
One who would quarrel about goats' wool.
Latin Proverb
He has grown in mom's wool basket.
Finnish Proverb
Great cry and little wool.
English Proverb
It is hard to take wool off a goat.
Irish Proverb
You go to an ass for wool.
Romanian Proverb
Better give the wool than the sheep.
Romanian Proverb
A lot of crying and little wool.
Finnish Proverb
(He/She) went looking for wool and came back shorn.
Spanish Proverb
The deceived sheep that went for wool and came back shorn.
Spanish Proverb
You may judge a man by his countenance. You may judge of a man by his remarks. You may know a lion by his claw. You must howl with wolves if you wish to be one of their herd. You must rave with the insane, unless you would be left alone. You reap the crop of another. You reap what you sow. You sail in the same boat. You seek for fruit in the garden of Tantalus. You seek water from a stone. You seek wool from a donkey. You should eat plentifully of the flesh of the turtle or not at all. You should know a man seven years before you stir his fire. You should only believe half of what you see, and none of which you hear. You stick in the same mire. You talk to a deaf man. You talk to a wall. You teach the dolphin to swim. You teach the dolphin to swim.
Latin Proverb
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