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Lack of resource has hanged many a person.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about people

May as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb.

Proverbs and old sayings English

One might as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb

Proverbs and old sayings about old, olderness

You may/might as well be hanged/hung for a sheep as (for) a lamb

Proverbs and old sayings British about old, olderness

You might as well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamb.

Proverbs and old sayings Australian

He that will be rich before night, may be hanged before noon.

Proverbs and old sayings British about night, wealth

Farewell and be hanged; friends must part!

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

A person with a bad name is already half-hanged.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about name, people, bad luck, bad

If you're born to be hanged, then you'll never be drowned.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

It is not the thief who is hanged, but one who was caught stealing.

Proverbs and old sayings Czech about thieves

He who was born to be hanged will not be drowned, unless the water go over the gallows.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about water

There are more thieves than are hanged.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about thieves

He that hath an ill name is half hanged.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about name

He that's born to be hanged will never be drowned.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

Little thieves are hanged by the neck, great ones by the purse.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about thieves

Little thieves are hanged, but great ones escape.

Proverbs and old sayings about thieves

A man can't be hanged for his thoughts.

Proverbs and old sayings English about man

He who is born to be hanged shall never be drowned.

Proverbs and old sayings French

He that is born to be hanged shall never be drowned.

Proverbs and old sayings French

Never speak of a rope in the house of one who was hanged.

Proverbs and old sayings French about home, house