Search in folklore: kill

279 results

Better be killed by robbers than by the kick of an ass.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about criminals

Neither handsome enough to kill nor ugly enough to frighten away.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese

You can't kill a dog just to save a cat's tail.

Proverbs and old sayings

We don't kill a pig every day.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about day

The letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about spirit, life

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

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about man

Sorrow doesn't kill, but it blights.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about sadness

Judges and physicians kill with impunity.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about judges

Dividing the pelt of a bear not yet killed.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian

It is only when someone kills a madman that people will know he has relatives.

Proverbs and old sayings Rwandan about people

The medicine that cures the tailor can kill the shoemaker.

Proverbs and old sayings about medicine

There are many ways of killing a dog without choking him with butter.

Proverbs and old sayings

Fancy kills and cures.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

Suppers kills mair than doctors cure.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

A bad wound may heal, but a bad name will kill.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about bad luck, name, bad

Mony ways to kill a dog though ye dinna hang him.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

There's mair ways o' killing a dog than hanging him.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

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

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about earth, sun

Aching bones will never kill you.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

You can't kill your way into heaven.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian