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Hang not all your bells upon one horse!

Proverbs and old sayings English

People make the bells say what they please.

Proverbs and old sayings French about people

One cannot ring the bells and walk in the procession.

Proverbs and old sayings French

Every one thinks that all the bells echo his own thoughts.

Proverbs and old sayings German

If you are going to steal bells plug your ears.

Proverbs and old sayings Mongolian

When big bells ring, little ones are not heard.

Proverbs and old sayings Serbian

You can tell an educated person by their talk and bells by their ringing.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about people

Ring the bells for whoever eats snails and drinks water, because he's dead.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about water

He who has lost his oxen is always hearing bells.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

One can't ring the bells and walk in the procession.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

He who receives the offerings let him ring the bells.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

If two doctors visit a sick man, the sexton rings the bells.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about man

Thieves never steal bells.

Proverbs and old sayings Tibetan about thieves

It is a poor parish where the priest has to ring his own bells.

Proverbs and old sayings Polish

Monreale, a city without comfort, either it rains, or the wind blows, or bells ring for the dead.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about city