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The elderly, even if deaf and blind, still know a lot.

Proverbs and old sayings Finnish about blind

To rude words deaf ears.

Proverbs and old sayings French

In a good family the husband is deaf and the wife blind.

Proverbs and old sayings French about family, husband, blind, wife, good, good luck

A good husband should be deaf and a good wife should be blind.

Proverbs and old sayings French about husband, blind, wife, good, good luck

To make a happy couple, the husband must be deaf and the wife blind.

Proverbs and old sayings French about couple, husband, happiness, blind, wife

It is bad preaching to deaf ears.

Proverbs and old sayings German about bad luck, bad

Who so deaf as he that will not hear.

Proverbs and old sayings German

He who would rule must hear and be deaf, see and be blind.

Proverbs and old sayings German about rules, blind

Those that rule must hear and be deaf, must see and be blind.

Proverbs and old sayings German about rules, blind

It is useless to knock at the door of a deaf man.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek about man

There is a dialogue between deaf people.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian about people

He keeps silent, like a deaf pig in the wheat-field.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

When the music stops, a deaf person continues to dance.

Proverbs and old sayings Igbo about music, dance, people

To sing to the deaf, to talk with the dumb, and to dance for the blind are three foolish things.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about dance, blind, things

It is the deaf people that create the lies.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about people

None so deaf as he that will not hear.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

No one is as deaf as the man who will not listen.

Proverbs and old sayings Jewish about man

You talk to a deaf man.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about man

Hearing he hears not. He is deaf to entreaty.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

Hearing he hears not. He is deaf to entreaty. [Aliter. , To feign deafness. ]

Proverbs and old sayings Latin