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The ass of many owners is eaten by wolves.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese

Fear keeps and looks to the vineyard, and not the owner.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about fear

If you shake a dog, you shake his owner.

Proverbs and old sayings Rwandan

The master is the master and the owner is the headmaster.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

Unfortunate is the property that the owner doesn't oversee.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

There are a hundred owners besides you until the wheat is harvested.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

Tie the donkey where the owner wants, and let the wolf come to devour him.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

The ass of many owners is food for wolves.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about food

Empty hands only please their owner.

Proverbs and old sayings Ugandan

What is inside a package is known only to its owner.

Proverbs and old sayings Ugandan

If a dog bites you, you don't attack it but you attack its owner.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about attack

As long as a cock lives, it is said to have belonged to the child of the house; but when it is slaughtered for super, it is then that the real owner emerges.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about real estate, children, home, house

When you're a stranger in a land, if good comes to it may you have you share and if bad comes let it go to the owners of the land who know what gods should be appeased.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about bad luck, bad, good, good luck

The way a house is decorated will tell much about its owner. Don't just take love -- experience it.

Proverbs and old sayings about experience, home, house, love

When the screech-owl sings, you can try to go to work for someone else if you're working for a bad owner.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about work, bad luck, bad

If she's a nun in the abbey, she treats Jesus as an owner, but if she's a nun in the home, she serves Jesus and kisses him.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about kiss, home

We must blame the thief first before we say that where the owner put her property improper.

Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian about thieves
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