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Stolen things bring in misfortune.

Proverbs and old sayings about things

Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.

Proverbs and old sayings French about secret

Stolen fruit is sweet.

Proverbs and old sayings English

Stolen bread stirs the appetite.

Proverbs and old sayings French

Stolen sugar is the sweetest.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian

Stolen waters are the sweetest.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

Stolen house, locks on the door.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about home, house

Stolen pleasures are sweet.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian

A stolen object does not fill ones heart with joy.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about joy, heart

A man who smiles when he's been robbed has stolen something from the thief.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about thieves, man

Lock the stable door before the steed is stolen.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans

If two thieves quarreled, what was stolen emerges.

Proverbs and old sayings about thieves

When the thief has stolen from a thief, God laughs in heaven.

Proverbs and old sayings Armenian about thieves, god

When money is stolen you can only beat the dog.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about money

Don't shut the barn door after the horse is stolen.

Proverbs and old sayings English

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

Proverbs and old sayings English

One should punish a child the first time he comes home with a stolen egg. Otherwise, the day he returns home with a stolen ox, it will be too late.

Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian about home, children, time, day

Better give nothing than stolen alms.

Proverbs and old sayings German about nothing

When the calf is stolen, the peasant mends the stall.

Proverbs and old sayings German about peasantry

Those bosoms can be sold cheapest which are stolen ready made.

Proverbs and old sayings German