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Don't measure a wolf's tail until he is dead.

Proverbs and old sayings Croatian about measure

Look not out for dead men's shoes.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about man

Who leaves a son isn't really dead.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

Before a man learns to hang he is half dead.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about man

It is a base thing to tear a dead lion's beard off.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about things

He who waits for dead men's shoes, may have to go long barefoot.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about man

He who waits for a dead man's shoes is in danger of going barefoot.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about danger, man

The dead cannot come to kinsmen's aid.

Proverbs and old sayings

The way of this world is to praise dead saints and persecute living ones.

Proverbs and old sayings Dominican about saints, praise, world

To-day red, to-morrow dead.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about day

By the living we bury the dead.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

It's ill waiting for dead men's shoes.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about man

Don't sell the bearskin before the bear is dead.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about commerce

Even hares pull a lion by the beard when he is dead.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

You lament not the dead, but lament the trouble of making a grave; the way of the ghost is longer than the grave.

Proverbs and old sayings

Those who had some shame are dead.

Proverbs and old sayings Egyptian about shame

Poor Trust is dead; Bad Pay killed him.

Proverbs and old sayings English about bad luck, bad

Early to rise early to bed makes a man socialy dead.

Proverbs and old sayings English about man

The dead man's heirs are many, but not his brothers.

Proverbs and old sayings about man

Idleness is to be dead at the limbs but alive within.

Proverbs and old sayings