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I pointed out the stars and moon to you, but all you saw was the tip of my finger.
African Proverb
After I saw what my mother did, I will never trust a widow.
Tunisian Proverb
They think a calf a large beast that never saw a cow.
English Proverb
I saw a man, who saw another man, who saw the sea.
Portuguese Proverb
I saw you at Lucca, I knew you at Pisa.
Italian Proverb
I never saw an oft-removed tree, nor yet an oft-removed family, that throve so well as one that settled be.
French Proverb
It is a bad workman that has a bad saw.
Russian Proverb
As you see yourself, I once saw myself; as you see me now, you will be seen.
Mexican Proverb
I saw and was silent, I saw and pondered, I listened to the speech of men.
Norse Proverb
"I heard" is good; "I saw" is better.
Chinese Proverb
Old people's speech is not to be dishonored-after all, they saw the sun first.
African Proverb
Own kin are the worst friends, said the fox, when he saw the foxy dogs after him.
Danish Proverb
As you see yourself, I once saw myself; as you see me now, you will be seen.
Irish Proverb
No one ever saw a goat dead of hunger.
Italian Proverb
You shouldn't saw off the branch you're sitting on.
Swedish Proverb
Common saw sindle lies.
Scottish Proverb
If you saw what the river carried, you would never drink the water.
Jamaican Proverb
Hunger never saw bad bread.
Sicilian Proverb
Where you saw wood, there the sawdust will fall.
Russian Proverb
The frog saw how the horses were shod, so she also lifted up her foot.
Turkish Proverb
Nanni cherished his old age. [...] He captured Simurrum, but [...] he never saw mighty kingship. Thus Nanni was carried off to the nether world.
Sumerian Proverb
Close to a blacksmith, learn to hammer out nails; close to a carpenter, learn how to use a saw.
Chinese Proverb
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