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Give a dog an ill name, and you may as well hang him.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about name

He who would be rich in a year gets hanged in six months.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about wealth

Take down a thief from the gallows and he will hang you up.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about thieves

If you would be rich in a year, you may be hanged in six months.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about wealth

No hang you clothes all pon one nail.

Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican about clothes

A merchants happiness hangs upon chance, winds, and waves.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about chance, happiness

All monkeys cannot hang on one branch.

Proverbs and old sayings

It hangs by a hair.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

Catching's before hanging.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

He rises early that is hanged before noon.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

Hopes delayed hang the heart upon tenter-hooks.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about heart

It's a bad start on the week for the man who is hanged on a monday.

Proverbs and old sayings Mexican about bad luck, bad, man

In the hangman's house you will always find a rope.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about home, house

Every family has its hanger-on.

Proverbs and old sayings Norwegian about family

To be a hero hang on for a minute longer.

Proverbs and old sayings Norwegian about heroism

Heroism consists of hanging on one minute longer.

Proverbs and old sayings Norwegian about heroism

A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.

Proverbs and old sayings Norwegian about heroism

You cannot hang everything on one nail.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian

It was Blacksmith's guilt, but the Gypsy was hanged.

Proverbs and old sayings Polish about guilt, gypsies

The locksmith is the guilty one, but the blacksmith hangs.

Proverbs and old sayings Polish