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Give your wife the short knife, and keep the long one for yourself.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about wife

Give a pig when it grunts, and a child when it cries, and you will have a fine pig, and a bad child.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about children, bad luck, bad

Give the Goddess her due, even when her due is grief.

Proverbs and old sayings about sadness

Give and take is fair play.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

Give him an inch, he'll take an ell.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

Give him an inch and he'll take an ell.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

Give an ass oats and he runs after thistles.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

Give him your finger and he will seize your hand.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

Give at first asking what you safely can; 'tis certain gain to help an honest man.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about help, man

Give saturday, you will find sunday.

Proverbs and old sayings Egyptian

Give her bells and let her fly.

Proverbs and old sayings English

Give neither advice nor salt, until you are asked for it.

Proverbs and old sayings English about advice

Give good and get good.

Proverbs and old sayings Estonian about good, good luck

Give advice; if people don't listen, let adversity teach them.

Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian about advice, people

Give him a foot and he'll take four.

Proverbs and old sayings French

Give me the rhubarb and you may take the senna.

Proverbs and old sayings French

Give out that you have many friends, and believe that you have but few.

Proverbs and old sayings French

Give a blind man eyes and he will ask for eyebrows.

Proverbs and old sayings Georgian about blind, eyes, man

Give unto the king what is the king's, and unto God what is God's.

Proverbs and old sayings German about god

Give up the smallest part of a secret, and the rest is no longer in your power.

Proverbs and old sayings German about power, secret