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If God bids thee draw, he will find thee a rope; if he bids thee ride, he will find thee a horse.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about god

Pull gently at a weak rope.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

If the rope is weak, pull gently.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

He that hath been bitten by a serpent is afraid of a rope.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

Put a rope around your neck and many will be happy to drag you along.

Proverbs and old sayings Egyptian about happiness

If you put a rope around your neck, many people will be glad to drag you by it.

Proverbs and old sayings Egyptian about people

Money for old rope.

Proverbs and old sayings English about money, old, olderness

He pulls at a long rope who desires another's death.

Proverbs and old sayings French about death

Never speak of a rope in the house of one who was hanged.

Proverbs and old sayings French about home, house

Mention not a rope in the house of one whose father was hanged.

Proverbs and old sayings French about home, house

Never speak of a rope in the family of one who has been hanged.

Proverbs and old sayings French about family

He that spends more than he is worth spins a rope for his own neck.

Proverbs and old sayings French

One hair of a woman draws more than a bell-rope.

Proverbs and old sayings German about woman

Untying one of two ropes tied together means you untie both.

Proverbs and old sayings

The rope breaks where it is thinnest.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

He would not deserve even the rope for hanging.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

He names a rope in the house of a man that was hanged.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian about home, house, man

A viper without fangs is like a piece of rope.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian

Don't talk about a rope in the house of someone whose father was hung.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about home, house

It's bad manners to talk about ropes in the house of a man whose father was hanged.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about home, house, bad luck, bad, man