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Bellows Proverbs
Windmills are not driven by bellows.
German Proverb
He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows: he breathes but does not live.
Hindi Proverb
There's no turning a windmill with a pair of bellows.
Italian Proverb
You cannot drive a windmill with a pair of bellows.
American Proverb
Ill words are bellows to a slackening fire.
English Proverb
He bellows like a bull, but is as weak as a bulrush.
Romanian Proverb
Man is fire, woman is tow; the devil comes with a bellows.
Spanish Proverb
Ill words are bellows to a slackening fire.
Latin Proverb
He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.
Sanskrit Proverb
A woman is flax, man is fire, the devil comes and blows the bellows.
Romanian Proverb