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Seat yourself in your place, and they will not make you rise.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese

Seat yourself in your place and you will not be made to quit it.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

If you sit on a seat, and that seat is a comfortable seat, sit on that seat, and do not leave that seat.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

One is better off seated than standing. lying than seated, asleep than awake, and dead than alive.

Proverbs and old sayings about lie

If you aren't in your own home, you dance while seated.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about dance, home

If you offer to share your seat with a person who has a big bottom your bound to lose it completely.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about people

Eating while seated makes one of large size; eating while standing makes one strong.

Proverbs and old sayings

Those who have free seats at a play hiss first.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

Those who have free seats at the play are the first to hiss.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

The people sitting in the free theater seats are the first ones to boo.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about people

A rickety chair will not long serve as a seat.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

He has command of the sack who is seated on it.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

One man often talks another off his bench, and seats himself upon it.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about man

Virtue in the middle, said the Devil, when seated between two lawyers.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about virtue, devil

We are all well placed, said the cat, when she was seated on the bacon.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

He that you seat upon your shoulder will often try to get upon your head.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about heads

When the devil gets into the church he seats himself on the altar.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about devil

Who is ell seated should not budge.

Proverbs and old sayings German

If you've money, take a seat; it you've none, take to your feet.

Proverbs and old sayings German about money

Though you seat the frog on a golden stool, he'll soon jump off again into the pool.

Proverbs and old sayings German