Petty thieves are hanged, you take off your hat to the big ones.
Proverbs and old sayings German about thieves
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Whenever women say good-bye they always hang around for a while.
Proverbs and old sayings German about good, good luck
Away with you, be a peddlar, a knave, says the hangman to his man.
Proverbs and old sayings German about man
Success to you! God speed the craft! as the hangman said to the judge.
Proverbs and old sayings German about speed, judges, god
Millers, tailors, and weavers are not hanged, or the trade would soon be extinct.
Proverbs and old sayings German about commerce
The hanging fruit is never too heavy for the creeper to bear.
Proverbs and old sayings
Your health comes first -- you can always hang yourself later.
Proverbs and old sayings
The hangman is being hanged.
Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian about being
He hangs out the dirty linen, to the public.
Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian about public
The great thief escapes, the small one hangs.
Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian about thieves
He would not deserve even the rope for hanging.
Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian
He names a rope in the house of a man that was hanged.
Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian about home, house, man
We are both queens, so who will hang out the laundry?
Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian
His face would hang him.
Proverbs and old sayings Irish about face
Only those who were born to hang are not afraid of the water.
Proverbs and old sayings Irish about water
The thief is sorry he is to be hanged, not that he is a thief.
Proverbs and old sayings Irish about thieves
He who has a bad name is half hanged.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about name, bad luck, bad
He hangs the May-branch at every door.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian
He who hath an ill name is half hanged.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about name
A man was hanged for saying what was true.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about man
