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It is vain to fish without a hook, or learn to read without a book.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

If you are ready to believe, you are easy to deceive.

Proverbs and old sayings

Underneath every bush you'll find a mud rabbit ready to bolt.

Proverbs and old sayings

Get thy spindle and thy distaff ready, and God will send flax.

Proverbs and old sayings about god

When the dog is down, every one is ready to bite him.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

The tears of the adulteress are ever ready to be shed.

Proverbs and old sayings Egyptian about tears

Eat when the meal is ready, speak when the time is ripe.

Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian about time

Eat when the food is ready; speak when the time is right.

Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian about food, rightness, time

Don't demand that what you write in the Nile will be read in the desert.

Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian

A friend's meat is soon ready.

Proverbs and old sayings French

A house ready made and a wife to make.

Proverbs and old sayings French about wife, home, house

Nothing is more elegant than ready money.

Proverbs and old sayings French about money, nothing

When the cage is ready the bird is flown.

Proverbs and old sayings French

A man who wants bread is ready for anything.

Proverbs and old sayings French about man

He was born on a Sunday, he likes work ready done.

Proverbs and old sayings French about work

He expects that larks will fall ready roasted into his mouth.

Proverbs and old sayings French about fall

Credit is better than ready money.

Proverbs and old sayings German about money

Who are ready to believe, are easy to deceive.

Proverbs and old sayings German

Those bosoms can be sold cheapest which are stolen ready made.

Proverbs and old sayings German

How many daily read the Word, and yet from vice are not deterred.

Proverbs and old sayings German about vice, word