Famous Proverbs
82 Proverbs about Ashes / Page 2
11. Water washes everything.
12. Be merry, Shrovetide, for to-morrow thou wilt be ashes.
13. He gathers up ashes and scatters flour.
14. The wood is burnt, but the ashes are a nuisance.
15. Under white ashes lie often glowing embers.
16. Soon fire, soon ashes.
17. What is lost in the fire must be sought in the ashes.
18. Who wants fire, let him look for it in the ashes.
19. See that your own hearth is swept before you lift your neighbor's ashes.
20. The eyeless ant asked God: Give me eye-lashes.