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Neck or nothing.

Proverbs and old sayings German about nothing

Neck or naething, the king loes nae cripples.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

False ambition serves the neck.

Proverbs and old sayings Egyptian about ambition

Move your neck according to the music.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about music

A camel cannot see the crookedness of its neck.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

A sleeping head needs more than its neck to support it.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about heads

Tortoises only make progress when they stick there necks out.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about progress

A drunkard is like a whisky bottle only neck and belly but no head.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about heads

The gourd's neck cannot be straightened in it's old age, it can only be broken.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about olderness, age, old

When a stiff-necked bull stands with its four legs planted firmly and refuses to move, you cannot make it go ahead only by pulling it by the reins and using your whip.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

Better bend the neck than bruise the forehead.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans

He who is to break his neck finds the stairs in the dark.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about dark, americans

By his own hand he wrapped the snake around his neck.

Proverbs and old sayings

Never let your tongue hit your neck.

Proverbs and old sayings

He who looks up too much gets a pain in the neck.

Proverbs and old sayings about pain

God gave the giraffe a long neck so that He would not have to bend the palm tree.

Proverbs and old sayings about god

Other's ornaments tire one's neck.

Proverbs and old sayings

The goats pasture with bells hanging from their necks in order not to stray.

Proverbs and old sayings about order

The wolf has a thick neck, because he does his job on his own.

Proverbs and old sayings Bulgarian

Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about heads, family, woman, man