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The day will come when cats have horns and Dutchmen will be circumcised.

Proverbs and old sayings Guatemalan about day

An ox with long horns, even if he does not butt, will be accused of butting.

Proverbs and old sayings Malaysian

The old bucks got the stiffest horns.

Proverbs and old sayings Norwegian about old, olderness

Take an ox by its horns, a man by his heart.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about heart, man

The camel going to seek horns, lost his ears.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian

An ox is taken by the horns, and a man by the tongue.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about man

Take a man at his word, an ox by the horns.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about word, man

God bestows no horns upon an ill-tempered cow.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about god

God does not give horns to a cow that likes to gore.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about god

An ill-willy Cow should have short horns.

Proverbs and old sayings

Let the horns gang with the hide.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

Man is valued for his word, the ox for his horns.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about word, man

The horns are dry but they keep the house in plenty.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about home, house

They have taken the cow by the horns in order to milk it better.

Proverbs and old sayings about order

The older buck gets, the harder become its horns.

Proverbs and old sayings Swedish

When hitting the horn of a single cow, the horns of a thousand cows hurt.

Proverbs and old sayings

The mother of the big he-goat has no horns.

Proverbs and old sayings Ugandan about mother

When a fool has the cow by the horns, the wise man can milk it.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about man

Two rams cannot drink from the same bucket at the same time; they will lock horns.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about drinking, time