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Women have got long hair and short sense.

Proverbs and old sayings Maltese about common sense, sense

The more hair a dog has, the more fleas he will have.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

I poured our own flour and hung our hairsieve.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian

I gave so much advice that hair grew on my tongue.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about advice

A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian

Every hair casts its shadow.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about shadow

All the wool is hair, more or less.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese

A hair of the dog that bit you.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian

Bush natural; more hair than wit.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian

No hair so small but has his shadow.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about shadow

The house is burning and Grandma is combing her hair.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about home, house

No one is dragged to heaven by the hair.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian

A woman's tongue is longer than her hair.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about woman

Cry not for the hair when the head is off.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about heads

A single Russian hair outweighs half a Pole.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian

After the head is off, one does not cry over the hair.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about heads

Your feet are crooked, your hair is good for nothing, said the pig to the horse.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about nothing, good, good luck

Shame is past the shad of your haire.

Proverbs and old sayings about past, shame

All are not maidens that wears bare hair.

Proverbs and old sayings

Take a hair of the dog that bit you.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish