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A single bracelet does not jingle.

Proverbs and old sayings

A single slip may cause lasting injury.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

Even two friendly dogs cannot share a single bone.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

Who does not love to dance, does not love to sing.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about love, dance

Even a horn can be stopped from fighting and made to sing forever.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

Birds sing not because they have answers but because they have songs.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

When a single grass falls from a grass-thatched house it doesn't leak.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about home, house

You cannot dance without music though you can sing instrumentally without dancing.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about music, dance

Each bird loves to hear himself sing.

Proverbs and old sayings about americans

A single fact is worth a shipload of argument.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans

When the dead man sings it may last a very long time.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about time, americans, man

If you sing before breakfast, you'll cry before night.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about night, americans

A single penny fairly got is worth a thousand that are not.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverbs and old sayings about danger

More than one war has been caused by a single word.

Proverbs and old sayings about war, word

In the planting season visitors come singly, and in harvest time they come in crowds.

Proverbs and old sayings Australian about season, time

Until spring comes, nightingales do not sing.

Proverbs and old sayings Azere about spring

Without sowing a single wheat you would not harvest thousand ones.

Proverbs and old sayings Azere

The beggar may sing before the thief.

Proverbs and old sayings Belgian about thieves

A Single hand cannot wash itself even in the Danube river.

Proverbs and old sayings Bulgarian