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Curses are like chickens, they always come home.

Proverbs and old sayings about home

He who spends a night with a chicken will cackle in the morning.

Proverbs and old sayings Tunisian about night

The raven sees its chickens as falcons.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish

In our eyes the neighbor's chicken is a goose.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish about eyes

A chicken won't be grudged to a place a goose will come from.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish

When a poor man eats a chicken, one or the other is sick.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about man

Eggs may be smarter than the chickens, but it doesn't take long for them to stink.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish

You eat an egg, but you don't understand how painful it was for the chicken.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

The hen doesn't have breasts, but she can still feed her chicks.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

The fox which was caught in a snare called: If I shall not get the whole chicken, I will not be satisfied with the drumstick.

Proverbs and old sayings Georgian

What care is a friend worth? What handling can a chickling take?

Proverbs and old sayings

When you treat someone like a wild cat, he will steal your chickens.

Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy

A dog doesn't like bananas, but he can't bear to think that chickens eat them.

Proverbs and old sayings

To the dead, internment and, to the living, enjoyment orto the dead, the grave and, to the living, chicken.

Proverbs and old sayings Mexican about joy

If the Sultan demands five eggs, let his soldiers roast a thousand chickens.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian

Don't have the appetite of Miss Julia who, when she had meat, wanted chick peas.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

From the woods a beautiful pheasant, from the sea a beautiful moray eel, from the river a den eel, from the cage a beautiful chicken.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

You are blaming the hawk, the falcon is killing the chickens.

Proverbs and old sayings

If my belly is of glass, I will fill it with bread and chicken; if it is a closed cellar, I will fill it with cockroaches.

Proverbs and old sayings Tunisian