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On a dead tree there are no monkeys.

Proverbs and old sayings

The dead know the price of wood.

Proverbs and old sayings

The hero appears only when the tiger is dead.

Proverbs and old sayings about heroism

I am not dead yet. i can suffer a bit more.

Proverbs and old sayings about suffering

They are not dead who live in the hearts they leave behind.

Proverbs and old sayings about americans

You cannot compare the living with the dead.

Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian

Praise day at even, a wife when dead, a weapon when tried, a maid when married, ice when 'tis crossed, and ale when 'tis drunk.

Proverbs and old sayings about praise, wife, day

When I am dead the world can be an ocean or a dried up ditch.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about world

Of the dead, nothing but good.

Proverbs and old sayings Polish about nothing, good, good luck

Say only good things about the dead.

Proverbs and old sayings Polish about things, good, good luck

Speak well of the dead or not at all.

Proverbs and old sayings Polish

A dead man's will is the mirror of his life.

Proverbs and old sayings Polish about life, man

A dead man does not speak.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about man

The nest made, the bird dead.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese

The ass dead, the corn at his tail.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese

The dead open the eyes of the living.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about eyes

The only good Indian is a dead Indian.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about good, good luck

The dead and the absent have no friends.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about absent

A great thrust of a lance at a dead Moor.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese

Blessed are the dead that the rain rains on.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about rain