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The rabbit that dances on the broken branch of a high tree must look down to see how many mouths are opened wide beneath.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

You can have your nose broken easily if you put it in other people’s business.

Proverbs and old sayings Bengali about affair, people

He who breaks his word shall through his word be broken.

Proverbs and old sayings Bulgarian about word

Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

In the broken nest there are no whole eggs.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

In face of evil, one would rather be a jade broken than a brick intact.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about face

Eggs and oaths are easily broken.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

You cannot pull hard with a broken rope.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

Should the heavens fall, many pipkins will be broken.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about fall

All the smiths... can't mend a broken egg.

Proverbs and old sayings

An oath broken by one does not thereafter bind the other.

Proverbs and old sayings about oath

Better a leg broken than the neck.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

Rules are made to be broken.

Proverbs and old sayings English about rules

Don't mend what ain't broken.

Proverbs and old sayings English

Even a broken clock is right twice a day.

Proverbs and old sayings English about rightness, day

What bread men break is broken to them again.

Proverbs and old sayings English about man

A broken leg is not healed by a silk stocking.

Proverbs and old sayings English

The pitcher that goes too often to the well is broken at last.

Proverbs and old sayings English

A cake and a bad custom ought to be broken.

Proverbs and old sayings French about bad luck, bad