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The fox loves cunning, the wolf covets the lamb, and a woman longs for praise.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about praise, woman

There die as many lambs as wethers.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese

The wolf never wants a pretext against the lamb.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese

The lambskin is not worth the currying.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian

A wife should be as humble as a lamb, busy as a bee, as beautiful as a bird of paradise and faithful as a turtle dove.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about paradise, wife

As soon comes the Lamb-skin to the market as the old Sheeps.

Proverbs and old sayings about old, olderness

Cute lamb sucks two ewes.

Proverbs and old sayings Serbian

In August the lambs are slaughtered.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

In January you slaughter the lambs in February you work the skins.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about work

A good kid goat comes from a young goat and a good lamb from a strong sheep.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about good, good luck

Go to bed with the lamb, and rise with the lark.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

Now that I have an ewe and a lamb, every one says to me: Good morrow, Peter.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about good, good luck

As the sheep are shorn, the lambs shiver.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish

You may/might as well be hanged/hung for a sheep as (for) a lamb

Proverbs and old sayings British about old, olderness

March, mean, son of an ogre! You've taken all my suckling lambs and left only one weaned lamb. - Oh April, my brother, give me two days, because alone, I don't have them.

Proverbs and old sayings about day

It needs but slight provocation to make the wolf devour the lamb.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish