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You will shed tears with one eye like a monkey.

Proverbs and old sayings Zulu about tears

A monkey in its mother's eye is like a gazelle.

Proverbs and old sayings Yemenite about mother

A monkey that pilfers from a widow's larder must not be admonished.

Proverbs and old sayings

The monkey does not see his own hind backside; he sees his neighbor's.

Proverbs and old sayings

When the man is away, the monkey eats his corn and goes into his hut.

Proverbs and old sayings Zulu about man

Copying everyone else all the time, the monkey one day cut his throat.

Proverbs and old sayings Zulu about time, day

Copying everybody else all the time, the monkey one day cut his throat.

Proverbs and old sayings Zulu about time, day

He who wants to plant corns must make peace with the monkeys.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about peace

If money where to be found up in the trees, most people would be married to monkeys.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about money, people

The crocodile does not die under the water so that we can call the monkey to celebrate its funeral.

Proverbs and old sayings about water

When there are no great tigers in the deep mountains, even a monkey can become king.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about criminals, hope

Do chattering monkeys mimic men, Or we, turned apes, out-monkey them?

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about man

At twenty a man will be a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy a monkey, and at eighty nothing.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about nothing, man