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The preacher must be like a chicken who always has an egg in reserve.

Proverbs and old sayings German

The chicken also knows when it's morning, but still watches the mouth of the cock.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan

Curses are like chickens; they come home to roost.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek about home

The fox that waits until the chicken falls from the perch dies from hunger.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek about hunger

A sleeping fox catches no hare, chicken.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

Do not count your chicken before they are hatched.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

One first drives off the fox, before taking the chickens home and blaming them for straying.

Proverbs and old sayings Igbo about home

Priests, friars, nuns, and chickens never have enough.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

In the village that you don't know, the chickens have teeth.

Proverbs and old sayings

If chickens were judges, cockroaches would be sentenced.

Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican about judges

It is better to be the head of a chicken than the rear of an ox.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about heads

The hen scratches and the chicken learns.

Proverbs and old sayings

Don't count your chicken before they hatch.

Proverbs and old sayings

Do not eat your chicken and throw its feathers in the front yard.

Proverbs and old sayings Liberian about garden

A chicken that hatches a crocodile's eggs is looking for trouble.

Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy

You can't blame the axe for the noise made by the chicken you are about to slaughter.

Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy

To win a dispute is to gain a chicken and lose a cow.

Proverbs and old sayings Mexican about dispute

Day will not break thanks to the cackling of the chicken.

Proverbs and old sayings about day

The chicken that stays in the farmyard, will peck the crumbs.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese

My chicken is good, but my neighbor's looks better.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about good, good luck