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There are more ways of killing a dog than hanging it.

Proverbs and old sayings German

Don't sell the bear-skin before you have killed the bear.

Proverbs and old sayings German about commerce

On Saint Thomas the Divine kill all turkeys, geese and swine.

Proverbs and old sayings German about saints

There are more ways of killing a dog than choking it with butter.

Proverbs and old sayings German

You cannot kill an elephant with bullets of wax.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan

The stick that breaks the window does not kill a dog.

Proverbs and old sayings Gypsy about gypsies

You don't kill a gypsy by cutting him in ten pieces -- you only make ten more gypsies.

Proverbs and old sayings Gypsy about gypsies

A foreseen disaster should not kill the handicapped.

Proverbs and old sayings Hatian about disaster

Ignorance doesn't necessarily kill you but it makes you sweat a lot.

Proverbs and old sayings Hatian about ignorance

Two dogs can kill a lion.

Proverbs and old sayings

That's how the world is: wolves kill sheep.

Proverbs and old sayings about world

Gluttony has killed more people than famine has.

Proverbs and old sayings about people

A slanderer kills three: himself, his listener, and the person who was slandered.

Proverbs and old sayings about people

He kills two flies with one flap.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

If a dog is to be killed, it is said to be mad.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

He likes it, as a goat likes the knife, that kills him.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

Nobody is forced to attend the dinner given after killing a pig.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

Never kill a man who says nothing.

Proverbs and old sayings about nothing, man

Don't poison someone whom you can kill with sweets.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian

A doctor is only a doctor when he has killed one or two patients.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian