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What has horns will gore.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

'Tis well that wicked cows have short horns.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

The camel asking for horns lost also his ears.

Proverbs and old sayings English

The camel asking for horns lost also his ears. [In grasping for things we need not, we often lose what we have. ]

Proverbs and old sayings English about need, things

Her horns are too heavy for the cow.

Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian

The calves do not fear the horns of their mother.

Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian about fear, mother

The devil may die without my inheriting his horns.

Proverbs and old sayings French about devil

They are not all hunters who blow horns.

Proverbs and old sayings German about hunters

Write on one of the devil's horns, Good angel, and many will believe it.

Proverbs and old sayings German about devil, good, good luck

He has hit the udder between the horns.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

A buffalo does not feel the weight of his own horns.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian

A buffalo does not feel the weight of its own horns.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian

In winter the milk goes to the cow's horns.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

When a heifer is far from home she grows longer horns.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about home

God gives a curst one short horns.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about god

He that has swallowed the devil may swallow his horns.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about devil

In trying to straighten the horns you kill the ox.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese

Hitherto I gave you credit for having horns.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

Men are bound by words, bulls' horns by ropes.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about man

Providence provides but short horns for the fierce ox.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin