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Ring the bells for whoever eats snails and drinks water, because he's dead.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about water

Better no ring, nor the ring of a rash.

Proverbs and old sayings

The big bells have to ring, in order for the little bells to ring.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about order

To sit by the ring and tell the man inside, 'knock him down. '

Proverbs and old sayings about man

While the great bells are ringing no one hears the little ones.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

An ape's an ape, though he wear a gold ring.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

Better when birds sing than where irons ring.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

Even if a monkey wears a golden ring, it is and remains an ugly thing.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about things

All of you that intend to ring, you undertake a dangerous thing.

Proverbs and old sayings English about things

Marriages sealed with rings end with drawn knives.

Proverbs and old sayings French about end

One cannot ring the bells and walk in the procession.

Proverbs and old sayings French

Wisdom without morality is like a ring without a gem.

Proverbs and old sayings about morality, wisdom

An iron ring made of wood.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

The congregation is poor, the priest rings the bell himself.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

The more renowned woman often has fewer rings.

Proverbs and old sayings Icelandic about woman