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Breaking news of the dead in the right way is very important.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about rightness

Break one link and the whole chain falls apart.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

Break a pot, pay for a pot.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

Breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, dine like a pauper.

Proverbs and old sayings English

Break the legs of an evil custom.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

Break the leg of a bad habit.

Proverbs and old sayings about habits, bad luck, bad

Break the legs o' an evil custom.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

Break the soil when it's moist, plow with the warm weather, and do the seeding on time.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about weather, time

Breaking her hip is the old woman's fault.

Proverbs and old sayings Welsh about woman, old, olderness

Kiss any arm you cannot break, a and pray to God to break it.

Proverbs and old sayings Syrian about kiss, pray, god

When wood breaks it can be repaired, but ivory breaks forever.

Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian

It's better to fall from a tree and a break your back than to fall in love and break your heart.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about fall, heart, love

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

Proverbs and old sayings English about spirit

May your friendship not be like a stone: if it breaks you cannot put the pieces together. May it be like iron: when it breaks, you can weld the pieces back together.

Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about friendship

When a stone hits glass, the glass breaks. When glass hits a stone, the glass breaks.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian

Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Proverbs and old sayings British about hope, bad luck, bad, good, good luck

If hope were not, heart would break.

Proverbs and old sayings British about hope, heart

People who do not break things first will never learn to create anything.

Proverbs and old sayings Philippine about things, people

If you are building a house and a nail breaks, do you stop building, or do you change the nail?

Proverbs and old sayings Rwandan about change, home, house

The last straw breaks the camel's back.

Proverbs and old sayings English