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A maker of idols is never an idolater.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

The maker of laws must be severe; who executes them must be generous.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

Like box-makers, more noise than work.

Proverbs and old sayings French about work

The money-maker is never tired.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about money

For rice cakes, go to the rice-cake maker.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese

He who mocks the poor shows contempt for their maker.

Proverbs and old sayings Moroccan about contempt

Be not a shoemaker nor yet a shaft maker save for thyself alone: let the shoe be misshapen, or crooked the shaft, and a curse on thy head will be called.

Proverbs and old sayings about heads

Law makers shou'dna be law breakers.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about law

Law-makers shouldna be law-breakers.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about law

In a soap maker's house, a person who doesn't fall, slips.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about fall, people, home, house

Let the salad-maker be a spendthrift for oil, a miser for vinegar, a statesman for salt, and a madman for tossing.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

The maker of wooden spoons saves his hand from fire.

Proverbs and old sayings about fire, fire brigade

A destroyer can defeat thousands of earthenware makers.

Proverbs and old sayings Yemenite about defeat