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Lying will get you a wife, but it won't keep her.

Proverbs and old sayings Cameroonian about lie, wife

Among ten matchmakers only nine will lie.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about lie

One never accuses without a little bit of lying.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about lie

A good storyteller must be able to lie a little.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about lie, good, good luck

One man tells a lie, dozens repeat it as the truth.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about lie, truth, man

To tell only half the truth is to give life to a new lie.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about lie, truth, life

Never do anything standing that you can do sitting, or anything sitting that you can do lying down.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about lie

Never does a woman lie in a more cunning way than when she tells the truth to someone who doesn't believe her.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about lie, truth, woman

When the big fish fight the shrimps must lie low.

Proverbs and old sayings about fight, lie

A lie runs until truth catches up to it.

Proverbs and old sayings Cuban about lie, truth

A lie runs until it is overtaken by the truth.

Proverbs and old sayings Cuban about lie, truth

A lie has short legs.

Proverbs and old sayings Czech about lie

As one makes his bed, that way he shall lie down.

Proverbs and old sayings Czech about lie

Better a lie that soothes than a truth that hurts.

Proverbs and old sayings Czech about lie, truth

There were once three brothers: a lie, theft and the gallows.

Proverbs and old sayings Czech about thieves, lie

Falsehood travels and grows.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about lie

Ten noes are better then one lie.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about lie

Two may lie so as to hang a third.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about lie

Falsehood never tires of going round about.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about lie

Under white ashes lie often glowing embers.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about lie