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Stable the steed, and put your wife to bed when there's night wark to do.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about night, wife

If you enter a goat stable, bleat; if you enter a water buffalo stable, bellow.

Proverbs and old sayings about water

If you go into a goat stable, bleat; if you go into a water buffalo stable, bellow.

Proverbs and old sayings about water

Do not shut/lock the stable door after the horse has bolted

Proverbs and old sayings British about old, olderness

It is no use locking the stable door after the horse has bolted

Proverbs and old sayings British about use, old, olderness

Lock the stable door before the steed is stolen.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans

The animal rambling in the stable makes the sleeping ones rise too.

Proverbs and old sayings

An aged steed confined to the stable still aspires after the glory of galloping a thousand miles.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about glory

The Germans in the stable, the Czech in the kitchen and the French in bed.

Proverbs and old sayings Czech

Care, and not fine stables, make a good horse.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about good, good luck

The man who is born in a stable is not a horse.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about man

It is too late to lock the stable door when the horses have already been stolen.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

It is too late to lock the stable door when the steed is stolen.

Proverbs and old sayings

Don't lock the stable door after the horse is stolen.

Proverbs and old sayings English

It's too late to shut the stable-door after the horse has bolted.

Proverbs and old sayings English

The stable wears out a horse more than the road.

Proverbs and old sayings French

Only when the horses have escaped do men repair the stable.

Proverbs and old sayings German about man