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Choose bread with eyes, cheese without eyes and wine that makes your eyes pop.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about eyes, wine

A lady has to be of the right cut and the right measure to make a pretty figure.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about rightness, measure

A given excuse that was not asked for implies guilt. Clapping with only the right hand will not make a noise.

Proverbs and old sayings about guilt, rightness

Debts are like children: the smaller they are the more noise they make.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about children

If you do something wrong to me, I forgive you. But I know that someday God will make you hit the son of a chief on the head. Then the chief will punish you.

Proverbs and old sayings about bad, heads, god

When brothers quarrel, take a hoe and go and dig; and when they make it up, take a basket and patter the crop.

Proverbs and old sayings

It is well to learn from the errors of others, since there is not time enough to make all of them by yourself.

Proverbs and old sayings Swedish about error, time

If you're ridin' ahead of the herd, take a look back every now and then to make sure it's still there.

Proverbs and old sayings

Chicken are beautiful because of their feathers, women are beautiful because of their make-up.

Proverbs and old sayings Thai

You must be fully prepared to lose a great deal in order to make a great deal.

Proverbs and old sayings about order

If there's bitterness in the heart, sugar in the mouth won't make life sweeter.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about life, heart

Men would not be richer for being miserly; generosity does not make a man poorer.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about generosity, being, man

If the rich could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make a wonderful living.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about wealth, people

Don't throw out the old pot until you have the tinker makes a new one.

Proverbs and old sayings about old, olderness