An old bachelor compares life with a shirt button that hangs often by a thread.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about life, old, olderness
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Better a daughter that has been slept on than a son who has been hanged.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish
If stupidity were a crime, half the human race would be hanged at every crossroads.
Proverbs and old sayings about stupidity, crime, criminals, human imperfections
He did hear the sound of the bell, but doesn't know where the clapper hangs.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch
Bad company, said the thief, as he went to the gallows between the hangman and a monk.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about companies, thieves, bad luck, bad
The person who is tired will find time to sleep. A person with a bad name is already half hanged.
Proverbs and old sayings English about people, name, sleep, time, bad luck, bad
Mention not a rope in the house of one whose father was hanged.
Proverbs and old sayings French about home, house
Never speak of a rope in the family of one who has been hanged.
Proverbs and old sayings French about family
It's bad manners to talk about ropes in the house of a man whose father was hanged.
Proverbs and old sayings Irish about home, house, bad luck, bad, man
He hangs the May-branch at every door. (Alluding to the Italian custom of young men hanging out May-branches overnight before the door of their mistress.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about man
He hath not a farthing left wherewith to buy a rope to hang himself.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about commerce
'Tis gold Which makes the true man killed, and saves the thief; Nay, sometimes hangs both thief and true man; what Can it not do, and undo?
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about thieves, man
Never marry an heiress, unless her father has been hanged. She is sure to be proud.
Proverbs and old sayings about proudness
Never mention rope in the house of a man who has been hanged.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about home, house, man
If you can't hold on to the horse's mane then don't try to hang on to its tail.
Proverbs and old sayings Serbian
