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Use the chicken for broth and the pullet for its meat.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about use

One hair from the head of a woman pulls more than a ship's hauser.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about heads, woman

Dig the hoe in well in the vineyard and pull out the bad growth and the weed.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about bad luck, bad

From twenty to thirty, neither pulling nor pushing, from thirty on up a woman is of no further use.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about use, woman

Every who streches a skin on a drum, pulls the skin own his own side.

Proverbs and old sayings

The young magpie that pulls feathers out of his mother thinks that he is showing gratitude in that way.

Proverbs and old sayings Tibetan about gratitude, mother

Love thy neighbour, but pull not down thy hedge.

Proverbs and old sayings Ukrainian about love

It isn't the whistle that pulls the train.

Proverbs and old sayings about trains

The door of success is marked push and pull.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish

If all pulled in one direction, the world would keel over.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about world

If we all pulled in one direction, the world would keel over.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about world

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

When your horse is on the brink of a precipice it is too late to pull the reins.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

When your horse in on the brink of a precipice, it is too late to pull the reins.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, it would make him pull his hat over his eyes.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about eyes, man

He who is anxious for the death of another has a long rope to pull.

Proverbs and old sayings French about death

A person who arrives at a feast when the cooked meat is being pulled out of the pot does not know what was endured by others to catch and cook it.

Proverbs and old sayings Igbo about feast, being, people

If a man puts a cord around his neck, God will provide someone to pull it.

Proverbs and old sayings Moroccan about god, man

A fool may throw into a well a stone which a hundred wise men cannot pull out.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about man