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Snuff at a wake is fine if there's nobody sneezing over the snuff box.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

Limerick was, Dublin is, and Cork shall be the finest city of the three.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about city

Firelight will not let you read fine stories but it's warm and you won't see the dust on the floor.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

A fine shot never killed a bird.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

Every one can navigate in fine weather.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about weather

It's the merry drizzle that makes grass grow fine.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

The moth does most mischief to the finest garment.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

If it rained macaroni, what a fine time for gluttons.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about time

If it rained maccaroni, what a fine time for gluttons!

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about time

Work the fields on a fine day, study on a rainy day.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about day, work

Rain before seven, fine before eleven.

Proverbs and old sayings Romanian about rain

After bad weather comes fine weather.

Proverbs and old sayings Maltese about weather, bad luck, bad

Learning is fine clothes for the rich man, and riches for the poor man.

Proverbs and old sayings about wealth, clothes, man

He who wears too fine clothes, shall go about in rags.

Proverbs and old sayings about clothes

He whose clothes are too fine, shall go about in rags.

Proverbs and old sayings about clothes

Threads do not break for being fine, but for being gouty and ill-spun.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about being

Love is deed and not fine phrases.

Proverbs and old sayings about love

Everything new is fine.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian

No fine cloth can hide the clown.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about clowns

An argument is fine only when there is to be a fight.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about fight