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A honeyed tongue with a heart of gall.

Proverbs and old sayings French about heart

A galled horse will not endure the comb.

Proverbs and old sayings French

A galled horse does not care to be curried.

Proverbs and old sayings French

A little gall spoils a great deal of honey.

Proverbs and old sayings French

A covetous woman deserves a swindling gallant.

Proverbs and old sayings French about woman

Save a thief from the gallows and he will cut your throat.

Proverbs and old sayings French about thieves

Take down a rogue from the gallows and he will hang you up.

Proverbs and old sayings French

No armour is proof against the gallows.

Proverbs and old sayings German

Lying is the first step to the gallows.

Proverbs and old sayings German about lie

Many shun the sword, and come to the gallows.

Proverbs and old sayings German

He goes as willingly as a thief to the gallows.

Proverbs and old sayings German about thieves

We must eat and drink though every tree were a gallows.

Proverbs and old sayings German about drinking

The thief cannot find any tree that suits him for a gallows.

Proverbs and old sayings German about thieves

Put a beggar on horseback and he'll gallop.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

Money makes the horse gallop whether he has shoes or not.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about money

The gallows was made for the unlucky.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

The gallows will have its own at last.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

Imagination gallops, judgment merely walks.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about imagination, judgment

A little gall make a great deal of honey bitter.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about bitter

Take down a thief from the gallows and he will hang you up.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about thieves