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When a wolf is mentioned, he is already walking round the garden.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian about garden

You can't build a barrel round a bung hole.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

Money is round, and rolls.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about money

The longest way round is the shortest way home.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about home

At a round table there is no dispute about place.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about dispute

He who is always right will never get round the world.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about rightness, world

A round egg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harsh according to how you speak them.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese

The wolf dances round the well.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

Short cuts are long ways round.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

The wolf dances round the well. [Longing for the water he cannot reach. ]

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about longing, water

Just as a bamboo cane forms a round jet of water, so taking counsel together makes men of one mind.

Proverbs and old sayings Guatemalan about moral, mind, man, water

At every door-way, ere one enters, one should spy round.

Proverbs and old sayings

Injustice all round is justice.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about injustice, justice

Better go round than be drowned.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese

Money is round, and rolls away.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about money

Money makes the world go round.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about world, money

A liar can go round the world but cannot come back.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about world

The king lies doun, yet the warld rins round.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

The world is a round gulf, and he who cannot swim must go to the bottom.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about world

Everything comes round.

Proverbs and old sayings Swedish