Your close neighbor is better than your faraway brother.
Proverbs and old sayings
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You can close the city gates but not the mouths of men.
Proverbs and old sayings Persian about city, man
A fly doesn't enter in a closed mouth.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese
From a closed door the devil turns away.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about devil
In a closed mouth the flies can't come in.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese
An open countenance often conceals close thoughts.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese
A close mouth catches no flies.
Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian
If you are travelling in the blind man's country close one eye.
Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about country, blind, man
A fly cannot enter a closed mouth.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian
A fly will not come into a closed mouth.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian
Further from the eye - closer to the heart.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian about heart
Nothing enters a close Hand.
Proverbs and old sayings about nothing
Though near be the stone to the ground, closer is the help of Coivi.
Proverbs and old sayings about help
A close mouth catches nae fleas.
Proverbs and old sayings Scottish
Flies can't fly into a closed mouth.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian
God closes a door and opens a portico.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about god
If you close the door, the devil will turn his back on you.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about devil
The teeth and the tongue are close neighbors, and yet they sometimes bite each other.
Proverbs and old sayings
She is good who is close to the fire and does not burn.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about fire, fire brigade, good, good luck
He who spekes ill of someone close to you in your presence sends you to tell him so.
Proverbs and old sayings
