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When masters are fighting, their servants' forelocks are creaking.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian

An ill servant will never be a good maister.

Proverbs and old sayings about good, good luck

Fire an servants but ill maisters.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about fire, fire brigade

An ill servant ne'er prov'd a good master.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about good, good luck

Fire and water are gude servants but ill maisters.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about fire, fire brigade, water

The boss said to the servant, when there isn't what you want, eat what there is.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about heads

The lazy servant to save one step takes eight.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

If you pay not a servant his wages then he will pay himself.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

If you don't pay a servant his wages, then he will pay himself.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

Do not stuff your servant with bread, and he won't ask for cheese.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

The servant wench that has a mother in town swoons seven times a day.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about city, mother, day

Neither serve one who has been a servant, nor beg of one who has been a beggar.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

If you have a loitering servant, set his dinner before him and send him on an errand.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

As the master sleeps, the servant dreams.

Proverbs and old sayings Swedish about dream

A lazy thief is better than a lazy servant.

Proverbs and old sayings Swedish about thieves

Give a servant a proper meal and the cow will give more milk and the cat will drink less.

Proverbs and old sayings Swedish about drinking

The land is a chief, and a person is its lowly servant.

Proverbs and old sayings Tahitian about people

Master and servant -- both have the same body odor.

Proverbs and old sayings Tibetan about body

Masters who sacrifice for servants will receive the gift of loyalty.

Proverbs and old sayings about sacrifice, gifts

The most difficult master is the servant who became master.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish