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You don't milk a cow with your hands in your pockets.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian

God comes with leaden feet but strikes with iron hands.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about god

A golden handshake convinces even the most skeptical judge.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about judges

Many hands makes light work.

Proverbs and old sayings about light, work

Mony hands make light wark.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about light

Ye'll no herry yoursel with your ain hands.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

She spend's money like a woman with nay hands.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about money, woman

Kissing is cried down since the shaking o' hands.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about kiss

He that invented the maiden first handselled her.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

God keep ill gear out o' my hands; for if my hand ance get it, my heart winna part wi't, sae prayed the gude earl of eglinton.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about heart, god

What can be expected to be dropped is held in the hands, but what is in the heart I shall die with.

Proverbs and old sayings about heart

You don't measure a man in hands.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about measure, man

Your most faithful friends are your own hands.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

Only water in your hands can satisfy your thirst.

Proverbs and old sayings about water

Skilled hands eat trouts.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

White hands are no offence.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

A handsome man is not quite poor.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about man

Arms and money require good hands.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about money, good, good luck

God does not smite with both hands.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about god

If the sky falls, hold up your hands.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about sky