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As princes fiddle, subjects must dance.

Proverbs and old sayings German about dance

A prince without ears to listen has no head to govern.

Proverbs and old sayings German about heads

If the prince wants an apple, his servants take the tree.

Proverbs and old sayings German

Don't put your trust in princes, or the sons of men; there is no salvation in them.

Proverbs and old sayings about man

The prince is never guilty in his father's court.

Proverbs and old sayings Igbo

To censure princes is perilous, and to praise them is lying.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about lie, praise

The head of a monkey, the headdress of a prince.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about heads

Your son can be a prince, your daughter will be a mother.

Proverbs and old sayings about mother

Like prince, like people.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about people

A nobody to-day, a prince to-morrow.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about day

A nobody to-day, a prince to-morrow. [The reverse of To-day a man, to-morrow a mouse. ]

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about day, man

Every man is a prince in his own bed.

Proverbs and old sayings Guatemalan about man

Where there are no sheep, they call the goat princess.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish

You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about kiss, americans

For the first five years of your son's life treat him as a prince, for the next ten years as a slave, then as a friend for the rest of his life.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about life