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A dog with a bone knows no friends.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

Two dogs seldom agree over one bone.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

The nearer the bone, the sweeter the flesh.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

What is bred in the bone won't out of the flesh.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

Talk of the devil and you hear his bones rattle.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about devil

When two dogs fight for a bone, the third runs away with it.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about fight

When two dogs fight over a bone, a third one carries it away.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about fight

Hard words break no bones.

Proverbs and old sayings English

An old man is a bed full of bones.

Proverbs and old sayings English about man, old, olderness

Gnaw the bone which is fallen to thy lot.

Proverbs and old sayings English

The nearer the bone, the sweeter the meat.

Proverbs and old sayings English

While two dogs are fighting for a bone, a third runs away with it.

Proverbs and old sayings English

Sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me.

Proverbs and old sayings English

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will break my spirit.

Proverbs and old sayings English about spirit

Who looks for meat will find a bone.

Proverbs and old sayings Estonian

To a dog a bone has more value than a pearl.

Proverbs and old sayings about value

He who shares the meat is always left with the bone.

Proverbs and old sayings Finnish

For the last-comer the bones.

Proverbs and old sayings French

A good dog never gets a good bone.

Proverbs and old sayings French about good, good luck

A good bone does not always come to a good dog.

Proverbs and old sayings French about good, good luck