• After shaking hands with a Greek, count your fingers.~ Traditional Proverb
  • A single finger cannot catch fleas.~ Haitian Proverb
  • As the wound inflames the finger, so the thought inflames the mind.~ Ethiopian Proverb
  • Better a friend at court than gold on the finger.~ Welsh Proverb
  • Clean your finger before you point at my spots.~ Benjamin Franklin
  • Don’t use your teeth when you can untie the knot with your fingers.~ Afghan Proverb
  • Every man’s life is a fairy tale written by God’s finger.~ Hans Christian Andersen
  • Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.~ Charles F. Kettering
  • Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the mad? to achievement. One fails? forward toward success.~ Charles F. Kettering
  • Five fingers are brothers but not equals.~ Afghan Proverb
  • He who has long fingers should also have long legs.~ Swedish Proverb
  • God’s finger touched him and he slept.~ Lord Alfred Tennyson
  • God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart.~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.~ Adam Smith
  • He who steals honey, licks his fingers.~ Turkish Proverb
  • I may have lost the ring, but I still have the fingers! ~ Italian Proverb
  • I pointed out the stars and moon to you, but all you saw was the tip of my finger!~ African Proverb
  • Never burn your fingers to snuff another man’s candle.~ Traditional Proverb
  • Offer a clown your finger, and he’ll take your fist.~ Dutch Proverb
  • One finger alone cannot even kill a louse.~ Kenyan Proverb
  • Man cannot stir one inch without the push of heaven’s finger.~ Chinese Proverb
  • Never point out the mistakes of another with a dirty finger.~ Italian Proverb
  • No one puts his finger back where it was once bitten.~ Kanuri Proverb
  • One finger can’t lift a pebble.~ Hopi Indian Proverb
  • The eyes can do a thousand things that the fingers can’t.~ Iranian Proverb
  • The person with burned fingers asks for tongs.~ Samoan Proverb
  • The tip of a finger cannot be touched by itself.~ Sanskrit Proverb
  • You can’t hide behind your finger.~ Greek Proverb
  • Your fingers can’t be of the same length.~ Chinese Proverb
  • Unfortunate is the man who has no fingernails to scratch his head with.~ Arabian Proverb
  • When you point your finger at someone, look where the other fingers point.~ Jamaican Proverb
  • When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.~ Louis Nizerr.
  • When you show the moon to a child, it sees only your finger.~ Zambian Proverb
  • Without fingers the hand would be a spoon.~ Wolof Proverb

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