Search in folklore: names

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No names, no pack-drill

Proverbs and old sayings about old, olderness

A pet child has many names.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about children

Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about death, man, good, good luck

Sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me.

Proverbs and old sayings English

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will break my spirit.

Proverbs and old sayings English about spirit

Beloved children have many names.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian about children

He names a rope in the house of a man that was hanged.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian about home, house, man

The names of fools are always written on walls.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

From our ancestors come our names, but from our virtues our honours.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about ancestors

The patient who names a doctor his heir makes a big mistake.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about mistake

From our ancestors come our names from our virtues our honor.

Proverbs and old sayings about ancestors

They ate our food, and forgot our names.

Proverbs and old sayings Tunisian about food

She who keeps losing children doesn't invent names anymore.

Proverbs and old sayings Ugandan about children

The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about beginning, wisdom, rightness, things

The beginning of wisdom is calling things by their right names.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about beginning, wisdom, rightness, things

Tigers die and leave their skins; people die and leave their names.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about people

Tigers die and leave their stripes, but humans die leaving their names.

Proverbs and old sayings Malaysian about people