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The people who rescue and kill.

Proverbs and old sayings Zulu about people

'I nearly killed the bird. ' no one can eat 'nearly' in a stew.

Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian

Night of the Saint Andrew

On the 30th of November, Romaian people is celebrating Saint Andrew, the spiritual patriarch of Romania.

The night before Saint Andrew's Eve is known as the night of the ghosts( strigoi), strigoi means in Romanian...

Traditions and superstitions Romanian

If you flog a baboon because it is ugly, you will end up killing it.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about end

At a hunting expedition you cannot apportion the meat before you kill the animal.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

It is a surprise that the cock should hold a grudge against the pot, instead of the knife that killed it.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

When the hen steps on the feet of her chicken, she does not mean to kill them.

Proverbs and old sayings

If you would be happy for a week, take a wife; if you would be happy for a month, kill a pig; but if you would be happy all your life, plant a garden.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about happiness, garden, wife, life

The summer comes and kisses the child, the winter comes and kills it.

Proverbs and old sayings Estonian about kiss, children

The witch kills he ate and he did not give me, but she does not kill, he gave me too little.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan

Whichever son is able should bury his father. The first son did not kill him.

Proverbs and old sayings Igbo

If a young man is not prudent in seeking what killed his father, what killed his father may also kill him.

Proverbs and old sayings Igbo about prudence, man

It is better if you could say Here he ran away than Here he was killed.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

A dog that bites silently. [An insidious tradcuer. He would kill you with an air-gun. ]

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about air

Because a man has injured your goat, do not go out and kill his bull.

Proverbs and old sayings Kenyan about man

Vulnerant omnia, ultima necat. (All the hours wound you, the last one kills)

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

When a miser dies, the heirs feel as happy as when they kill a pig.

Proverbs and old sayings Maltese about happiness

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about eyes, magic, love