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Come unca'd sits unser'd.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

A tocherless dame sits lang at hame.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

He's twice fain that sits on a stane.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

Where macgregor sits is head of the table.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about heads

A new thing does not come to she who sits, but to she who travels.

Proverbs and old sayings about things

Who walks gains, who sits withers.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

Plenty sits still, hunger is a wanderer.

Proverbs and old sayings about wanderer, hunger

Where MacGregor sits at the head of the table.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about heads

One who walks with no reason is not like one who sits without reason, the one who walks might pick up something.

Proverbs and old sayings about reason

Who sits on your shoulders will try to climb on your head.

Proverbs and old sayings Swedish about heads

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverbs and old sayings about children, wealth

He who gets up in anger, sits down with a loss.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish about anger

God sits on high and he sees far.

Proverbs and old sayings Ukrainian about god

When the cat's away the mouse sits on its throne.

Proverbs and old sayings Vietnamese

Not everyone who sits in the seat of honor is master.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish

Flattery sits in the parlour when plain dealing is kicked out of doors.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about flattering

Don't expect to be offered a chair when you are visiting a place where the chief sits on the floor.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

If you go only once round the room, you are wiser than he who sits still.

Proverbs and old sayings Estonian

Don't expect to be offered a chair when you visit a place where the chief himself sits on the floor.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan