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Wide ears and short tongue are the best.

Proverbs and old sayings English

The camel asking for horns lost also his ears.

Proverbs and old sayings English

The camel asking for horns lost also his ears. [In grasping for things we need not, we often lose what we have. ]

Proverbs and old sayings English about need, things

The earth has ears, news has wings.

Proverbs and old sayings about earth

The back has to pay for what the ears didn't hear.

Proverbs and old sayings Finnish

A good deal for two, is a clip on the ears of a third.

Proverbs and old sayings Finnish about good, good luck

To rude words deaf ears.

Proverbs and old sayings French

Little pitchers have long ears.

Proverbs and old sayings French

Snarling curs never want sore ears.

Proverbs and old sayings French

Choose a wife with your ears, not your eyes.

Proverbs and old sayings French about eyes, wife

Dogs that always fight always have bleeding ears.

Proverbs and old sayings French about fight

One should choose a wife with the ears, rather than with the eyes.

Proverbs and old sayings French about eyes, wife

He has beans in his ears.

Proverbs and old sayings German

Not every ass has long ears.

Proverbs and old sayings German

It is bad preaching to deaf ears.

Proverbs and old sayings German about bad luck, bad

Woods have ears, fields have eyes.

Proverbs and old sayings German about eyes

Two eyes, two ears, only one mouth.

Proverbs and old sayings German about eyes

The wood has ears, the field has eyes.

Proverbs and old sayings German about eyes

Princes have long hands and many ears.

Proverbs and old sayings German

He who hath ears to hear, let him hear.

Proverbs and old sayings German