Search in folklore: masters

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Masters' hints are commands.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

Masters are fighting, servants' forelocks are creaking.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian

Masters who sacrifice for servants will receive the gift of loyalty.

Proverbs and old sayings about sacrifice, gifts

Great say-masters, bad pay-masters.

Proverbs and old sayings German about bad luck, bad

No man can serve two masters

Proverbs and old sayings British about man, old, olderness

Some people are masters of money, and some its slaves.

Proverbs and old sayings Chechen about money, people

A servant who has two masters, lies to one of them.

Proverbs and old sayings

If we are both masters, then who shall lead the mules?

Proverbs and old sayings

A horse with two masters is always skinny; the ship with two captains sinks.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

Two are the masters of one.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

Fire and water are good servants but bad masters.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about fire, fire brigade, bad luck, water, bad, good, good luck

No better masters than poverty and want.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about poverty

There are no better masters than poverty and wants.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about poverty

He who builds by the roadside has many masters.

Proverbs and old sayings English

The last comers are often the masters.

Proverbs and old sayings French

To the devil with so many masters, said the toad to the harrow.

Proverbs and old sayings French about devil

Workmen are easier found than masters.

Proverbs and old sayings German

He who builds by the road-side has many masters.

Proverbs and old sayings German

Fir and water are good servants, but bad masters.

Proverbs and old sayings German about bad luck, water, bad, good, good luck

He who serves small masters, is himself one of them.

Proverbs and old sayings German