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Who gives what he has before he is dead, take a mallet and knock that fool on the head.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about heads

A dead person is not asked for a shroud.

Proverbs and old sayings about people

The washer of corpses does no harm to the dead.

Proverbs and old sayings

A dead elephant cannot be covered by a lotus leaf.

Proverbs and old sayings Thai about salary

The dead will go to the village where the cock doesn't crow.

Proverbs and old sayings Thai

Don't praise my good fortune before I'm dead and buried.

Proverbs and old sayings Tibetan about praise, wealth, good, good luck

The best counselors are the dead.

Proverbs and old sayings

Even rabbits insult an dead lion.

Proverbs and old sayings

The land is dead.

Proverbs and old sayings Zulu

I rejoice that Kolomba's mother is dead.

Proverbs and old sayings Zulu about mother

Better ruined ten times than dead once.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish

Better ten times ill than one time dead.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about time

A dead man is mourned seven days; a fool, his lifetime.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about day, man

As the fat man gets thinner, the thin one is already dead.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about man

He who doesn't know a grave's coldness, doesn't give the dead their respect.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about respect

One is better off seated than standing. lying than seated, asleep than awake, and dead than alive.

Proverbs and old sayings about lie

He that gapes until he be fed, well may he gape till he be dead.

Proverbs and old sayings British