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Dogs have so many friends because they wag their tails, not their tongues.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

Don't let your tongue or your paintbrush wag your tail when they are making up an inventory.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

Don't cut off the monkey's tail before it is dead.

Proverbs and old sayings Congolese

Better the head of a village than the tail of a town.

Proverbs and old sayings about city, heads

The tail of an ox says, Time goes, time comes.

Proverbs and old sayings about time

Don't measure a wolf's tail until he is dead.

Proverbs and old sayings Croatian about measure

If the goat had a longer tail he could wipe the stars clean.

Proverbs and old sayings Czech about celebrity, stars

Dull scissors make crooked-mouthed tailors.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

You cannot make a good hunting-horn of a pig's tail.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about good, good luck

The day is sure to come when the cow will want her tail.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about day

The cow knows not what her tail is worth until she has lost it.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

The cow does not know the value of her tail till she has lost it.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about value

That mouse will have a tail.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

Talk of the wolf and his tail appears.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

If you pull one pig by the tail all the rest squeak.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

That mouse will have a tail (i.e. The thing will have a long train of consequences).

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about consequences, trains, things

A cat with a straw tail keeps away from fire.

Proverbs and old sayings English about fire, fire brigade

Who lifts a dog's tail is a dog himself.

Proverbs and old sayings Estonian

The tail and repentance go behind.

Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian

Regret, like a tail, comes at the end.

Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian about regret, end