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Confess and be hanged.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese

The man of sense does not hang up his knowledge.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about common sense, sense, knowledge, man

He that has an ill name is half hanged.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about name

Messengers should neither be headed nor hanged.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian

Petty thieves are hanged, the great ones go free.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about thieves

Name not a rope in his house that hanged himself.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about name, home, house

Save a thief from the gallows and he will help to hang you.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about help, thieves

He that killeth a man when he is drunk must be hanged when he is sober.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about man

If you would not live to be old, you must be hanged when you are young.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about old, olderness

Abuse doesn't hang on the collar.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian

You cannot hang everything on a single peg.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian

No one is hanged who has money in his pocket.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about money

Messengers should be neither beheaded nor hanged.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian

A soldier on furlough lets his shirt hang out of his trousers.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian

He that is evil deem'd is half hang'd.

Proverbs and old sayings

He rises over early that is hangit ere noon.

Proverbs and old sayings

All the Keys of the Countrey hangs not at one Belt.

Proverbs and old sayings

He that was born to be hang'd will never be drown'd.

Proverbs and old sayings

He was scant of news, that told his father was hang'd.

Proverbs and old sayings

All the keys in the land do not hang from one girdle.

Proverbs and old sayings