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Sometimes people who live in glass houses throw stones because their windows are painted.

Proverbs and old sayings English about people

He pays for the glasses who breaks them.

Proverbs and old sayings French

A woman who looks much in the glass spins but little.

Proverbs and old sayings French about woman

There never was a looking-glass that told a woman she was ugly.

Proverbs and old sayings French about woman

A woman and a glass are always in danger.

Proverbs and old sayings German about danger, woman

More people drown in glasses than in rivers.

Proverbs and old sayings German about people

He who has a glass roof must not throw stones at others.

Proverbs and old sayings German

In the looking-glass we see our form, in wine the heart.

Proverbs and old sayings German about wine, heart

He who lives in a glass house should be the last to throw stones.

Proverbs and old sayings German about home, house

By the first glass a lamb, the second a lion, and the third a pig.

Proverbs and old sayings

A storm in a glass of water.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian about water

Give a Hungarian a glass of water and a Gypsy fiddler and he will become completely drunk.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian about gypsies, water

The best looking-glass is the eyes of a friend.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about eyes

Women in state affairs are like monkeys in glass-houses.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about state

Lasses and glasses are always in danger.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about danger

Credit lost is like a broken looking-glass.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

The same hammer that breaks the glass forges the steel.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

He that has a head of glass must not throw stones at another.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about heads

He who has a glass roof should not throw stones at his neighbour's.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

What need has a blind man of a looking glass?

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about blind, need, man