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Trunk Proverbs
The twigs are rarely better than the trunk.
Icelandic Proverb
There's no reason to walk on the branches when the trunk is so thick.
Mexican Proverb
Every elephant has to carry its own trunk around.
Zimbabwe Proverb
Disgrace is like the grain of a tree trunk -- time makes it bigger instead of erasing it.
Japanese Proverb
By joining the tail to the trunk one makes up the whole elephant.
Hindi Proverb
Branches may be trained; not the trunk.
Latin Proverb
Forcing a bludgeon through a chinar trunk. Doing the impossible.
Kashmir Proverb
An elephant never tires of carrying his own trunk.
Asian-indian Proverb
A splinter doesn't land far from the trunk.
Serbo Croatian Proverb
It's as if she's fallen off an elephant's trunk.
Arabic Proverb
There is no elephant that complains about the weight of its trunk. No elephant is burdened by the weight of its tusks.
Nigerian Proverb
Think back, old trunk, to when you were a sprout.
Sicilian Proverb
He will never worship well the image on the altar who knew it when it was a trunk of wood in the garden.
Spanish Proverb