Building Proverbs

When building a house, don't measure the timbers in the forest. (Liberia Proverb)
A building of sand falls as you build it. View proverb
Cameroon Proverb
If you are building a house and a nail breaks, do you stop building, or do you change the nail? View proverb
Rwandan Proverb
A tender bamboo cannot be eagerly desired for building. View proverb
Zambian Proverb
If you are building something and a nail breaks, should you stop building altogether, or should you change the nail? View proverb
African Proverb
An hour may destroy what an age was building. View proverb
English Proverb
Building castles in the air. View proverb
German Proverb
Building the fence, when the cows are all stole. View proverb
Thai Proverb
You can stop a bird from flying over you, but you can't stop it building a nest. View proverb
Jamaican Proverb
Communities begin by building their kitchen. View proverb
French Proverb
There is little use building a fence around the garden to keep out the rabbits. (Yugoslav Proverb)
If the building of a nest were easy, would the little "apatipers" bird roost in the fork of a tree? View proverb
Ghana Proverb
You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair. View proverb
Chinese Proverb
Pouring water from above the roof of a tall building. View proverb
Chinese Proverb
If you don't mend up a small crack on the wall you end up building the entire wall. View proverb
African Proverb
You can't keep the birds from flying over your head, but you can keep them from building a nest in your hair. View proverb
American Proverb
No good building without good foundation. View proverb
English Proverb
Building and marrying of children are great wasters. View proverb
Romanian Proverb
He who did not help building the minaret, thinks that it just grew out from the ground. View proverb
Turkish Proverb
If you are building a house and a nail breaks, do you stop building, or do you change the nail? View proverb
Burundi Proverb
When building a house, don't measure the timbers in the forest. (African Proverb)
The world is like an old building on the banks of a stream – it carries away piece by piece; in vain you stop it with a handful of earth. View proverb
Persian Proverb