Famous Proverbs
907 Proverbs about Water / Page 18
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It is hard to sail without wind, and to grind without water.172.
It is too late to throw water on the cinders when the house is burnt down.173.
Let the blood be ever so thin, it is always thicker than water.174.
Love's plant must be watered with tears, and tended with care.175.
Much water runs by while the miller sleeps.176.
Onions, smoke, and a shrew, make a good man's eyes water.177.
The heron blames the water because he cannot swim.178.
The used plough shines, standing water stinks.179.
The water runs while the miller sleeps.180.
To give counsel to a fool is like throwing water on a goose.