The soldiers' blood, the general's reputation.
Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican about prestige, blood
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If you would shoot a general, shoot his horse first.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese
Under a powerful general there are no feeble soldiers.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese
When ten thousand soldiers lie rotting, the general's reputation is enhanced.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about prestige, lie
Fraud lurks in loose generalities.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin
A miser's son is generally a spendthrift.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin
At once a good general and a stout soldier.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about good, good luck
Women when injured are generally not easily appeased.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin
A woman for a general, and the soldiers will be women.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about woman
Talent and poverty, wealth and stupidity generally dwell together.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about talent, stupidity, wealth, poverty
Many friends in general, one in special.
Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian
Of two disputants, the warmer is generally in the wrong.
Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about bad
The medicine that hurts the most is generally the best healer.
Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about medicine
Sugared words generally prove bitter.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about bitter
Old soldiers never die, (they simply/just fade away). From a soldiers' folklore song, the phrase was most notably used by U.S. General Douglas MacArthur (1880–1964) in his farewell address to the Congress.
Proverbs and old sayings British about folklore, old, olderness
It is easy to get a thousand soldiers, but difficult to get one general.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese
Though you don't believe in other gods, you believe in the god of thunder; though you don't believe in medicine generally, you believe in laxatives.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about medicine, god
When the cuckoo sings, the wild boar loses its old coat, and the hen lays an egg without a false nest. And the ram's horns round out - he looks like a general.
Proverbs and old sayings about old, olderness
