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A sleeping fox counts chicken in his dreams.
Russian Proverb
Your friend chooses pebbles for you and your enemy counts your faults.
Egyptian Proverb
Anything with scales counts as fish.
Malay Proverb
Close only counts in horseshoes and hand-grenades.
English Proverb
The sun dial counts only the bright hours.
German Proverb
Every one counts for as much as he has.
German Proverb
It's the thought that counts.
Swedish Proverb
Beware of an oak, it draws the stroke; avoid an ash, it counts the flash; creep under the thorn, it can save you from harm.
Dutch Proverb
He counts his chickens before they are hatched.
Dutch Proverb
The man who counts the bits of food he swallows is never satisfied.
African Proverb
He that counts his friend's mistakes will be abandoned by him.
Arabic Proverb
The praise of a thousand jesters counts for nothing against the reprimand of one wise man.
German Proverb
God counts her tears.
Jewish Proverb
He that counts all costs will never put plough in the earth.
Romanian Proverb
I would I had as meikle pepper as he counts himself worthy Mice dirt.
Scottish Proverb
He that counts but his Host, counts twise.
Scottish Proverb
Getting married with a woman is nothing; it's assuming the responsibility of marriage that counts.
Haitian Proverb
It is not the size of the dog in the fight that counts, but the fight in the dog that wins.
English Proverb
What's at home, counts.
Czechoslovakian Proverb
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
English Proverb