Search in folklore: promising

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Promising and performing are two things.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about things

Promising is one thing, performing another.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about things

Promising is not giving, but serves to content fools.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese

Where people are promising much to you, bring a small bag.

Proverbs and old sayings Serbian about people

To threaten the brave with death is like promising water to a duck.

Proverbs and old sayings about death, water

Between promising and giving a man should marry his daughter.

Proverbs and old sayings French about man

Talking is easier than doing, and promising than performing.

Proverbs and old sayings German about talking

Between promising and performing a man may marry his daughter.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about man

Three things make a man rich: Earning and not spending, promising and not doing, buying and not selling.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about wealth, things, man