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Abundance of law breaks nane.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about law

The rich man breaks through the mesh and escapes, the afflicted man remains in the net and is caught.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about wealth, man

One refusing a sibling's advice breaks his arm.

Proverbs and old sayings about advice

Too much breaks the bag.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

A good heart breaks bad fortune.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about wealth, heart, bad luck, bad, good, good luck

The thread breaks where it is thinnest.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

The bow that is always bent slackens or breaks.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

It is not the fine, but the coarse and ill-spun that breaks.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

No wonder if he breaks his head who stumbles twice over one stone.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about miracle, heads

When the head of the family dies, that family breaks up.

Proverbs and old sayings about family, heads

When two jars collide, one breaks.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish

If the lady of the house breaks something it is an unfortunate accident; if the servant does, then it is a terrible disaster.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish about disaster, home, house

Who breaks, pays.

Proverbs and old sayings Vietnamese

Tapping persistently breaks the stone.

Proverbs and old sayings Welsh

Better the rod that bends than one that breaks.

Proverbs and old sayings Welsh

If a link is broken, the whole chain breaks.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish

If a link is broken, the entire chain breaks.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish

That which got bent while growing when you straighten it, it breaks.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

You walk so long with a jar for water, until the handle breaks off.

Proverbs and old sayings Czech about water