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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

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

When the explorer is ready, the guide will appear.

Proverbs and old sayings

Many hands are quickly ready with the work.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian about work

The sun is still beautiful, though ready to set.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about sun

Birds fly not into our mouths ready roasted.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

The ready back gets all the loads.

Proverbs and old sayings