Search in folklore: bone

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Words alone wont break bones.

Proverbs and old sayings

Old men carry the almanac in their bones.

Proverbs and old sayings Swedish about man, old, olderness

Two dogs strive for a bone and the third one runs off with it.

Proverbs and old sayings

A tongue has no bones but it can break.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish

A dog with a bone in his mouth cannot bite you.

Proverbs and old sayings Ugandan

A dog without teeth will also attack a bone.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about attack

Anger against a brother is felt in the flesh, not in the bone.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about anger

An honest man does not make himself a dog for the sake of a bone.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about man

The flitch hangs never so high but a dog will look out for the bone.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

When the crane attempts to dance with the house she gets broken bones.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about dance, home, house

The teeth of the puppy are growing, while the old dog is gnawing bones.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about old, olderness

Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes straight to the bone.

Proverbs and old sayings English about beauty

Two cats and one mouse, two women in one house, two dogs to one bone, will not agree long.

Proverbs and old sayings German about home, house

A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

Proverbs and old sayings about spirit, medicine, heart, good, good luck

The plagiarist turns the body inside-out and changes the bones.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about body

Impatience with your brother is in the flesh, it doesn't reach the bone.

Proverbs and old sayings Chechen

Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bone.

Proverbs and old sayings Moroccan about soul

Perhaps you will eat a whole elephant and nothing gets stuck in your throat, and then you eat a fish and a bone gets stuck in your throat.

Proverbs and old sayings about nothing