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Famine hides under the granary.

Proverbs and old sayings

You can burn down a house, but can you hide the smoke?

Proverbs and old sayings Ugandan about smoke, home, house

The devil likes to hide behind a cross.

Proverbs and old sayings Ukrainian about devil

A wise wolf hides his fangs.

Proverbs and old sayings Welsh

The clothes hide the blemish.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about clothes

Sins hide not in your sleep but in your dreams.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about dream, sin, sleep

Don't go selling the hide while the bear remains in the hole.

Proverbs and old sayings Yugoslavian

There are no greater prudes than those women who have their own dirty secrets to hide.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan

A woman who delivers a baby in the market square has nothing to hide.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about woman, nothing

When your neighbour is wrong you point a finger, but when you are wrong you hide.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about bad

The one who shows off himself in every place will one day search for Where to hide.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about day

If you knock your head against a wall, then a coconut tree and pillar and your head still remains undamaged my child, go and hide that head of yours; it is a good head.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about heads, children, good, good luck

There is no reason for war that reasonable men can't settle. Clouds and thunder don't always result in rain. A small cloud can hide the sun and the moon.

Proverbs and old sayings Armenian about reason, moon, war, rain, sun, man

A single merit cannot make a hundred demerits fade; a hundred merits cannot hide a single demerit.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about merit

If the doctor cures the sun sees it, but if he kills the earth hides it.

Proverbs and old sayings French about earth, sun

The monk's habit is never so blessed that the devil can't hide in it.

Proverbs and old sayings German about habits, devil

Eat vegetables and fear no creditors, rather than eat duck and hide.

Proverbs and old sayings about fear

When cockroach get in a trouble, him well glad fe fun go hide a fowl-house.

Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican about home, house