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Ears are usually uninvited guests.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

Ears that do not listen to advice, accompany the head when it is chopped off.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about advice, heads

Ears have no covers.

Proverbs and old sayings

Ears do not grow higher than the head.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about heads

Give your ears to words but do not give your words to ears.

Proverbs and old sayings

When you go to a donkey's house, don't talk about ears.

Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican about home, house

Having two ears and one tongue, we should listen twice as much as we speak.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish

Walls have ears

Proverbs and old sayings British about old, olderness

Little pitchers have big ears

Proverbs and old sayings Indian

Love enters a man through his eyes, woman through her ears.

Proverbs and old sayings Polish about eyes, woman, love, man

Walls have mice, mice [have] ears.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan

The ass went seeking for horns and lost his ears.

Proverbs and old sayings

Walls have mice and mice have ears.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan

He saved his ears, but lost his head.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about heads

A bachelor's wife doesn't have ears.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about wife

A snake's ears only listen to a stick.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

A child among elders converses with its ears.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about children

Cutting the ears of a mule will not make him a horse.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

If you need ears go and borrow them from the elephant.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about need

The strength of the elderly is in the ears and on the lips.

Proverbs and old sayings West African