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We all like lamb; each has a different way of cooking it.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

You may as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

Though you teach a wolf the paternoster, he will say Lamb! Lamb!

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

An old ewe dressed lamb-fashion.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about fashion, old, olderness

A young ewe and an old ram, every year bring forth a lamb.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about old, olderness

An onion shared with a friend tastes like roast lamb.

Proverbs and old sayings Egyptian

Old sheep shouldn't dress in lamb's fashion.

Proverbs and old sayings English about fashion, old, olderness

You should lie down with the lamb and rise with the lark.

Proverbs and old sayings English about lie

The bleating of the lamb merely arouses the tiger.

Proverbs and old sayings French

The sheep that is too tame is sucked by too many lambs.

Proverbs and old sayings French

The priest loves his flock, but the lambs more than the wethers.

Proverbs and old sayings German

By the first glass a lamb, the second a lion, and the third a pig.

Proverbs and old sayings

A woman like a lamb, a quiet friendly woman.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about quiet, woman

A mild sheep is suck by every lamb.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

Crows weep for the dead lamb then devour him.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

Where the wolf gets one lamb he looks for another.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

Death to the wolf is life to the lambs.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about death, life

Providence tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

A wolf often lies concealed in the skin of a lamb.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

Now I have got a ewe and a lamb, Every one cries, Welcome, Peter.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin