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One who believes everything he's told is as naive as one who fetches water with a sieve.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about water

Husband, you are a cuckold; wife, who told you so?

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about husband, wife

One who has eyes is not told to look.

Proverbs and old sayings about eyes

The carrier of a secret message is not told its meaning.

Proverbs and old sayings about secret

When a fool is told a proverb, it has to be explained to him.

Proverbs and old sayings

Who came back from the grave and told the story?

Proverbs and old sayings Tunisian

A deaf man heard how a mute told that a blind man has seen how a cripple walked.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about blind, man

You do not verify from your mother the authenticity of what your grandmother has told you.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about mother

Don't look into the eyes of your lover, or you will see what he has told many women before.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about eyes

The torah can be interpreted in 49 different ways. god told moses, 'decide according to the majority. '

Proverbs and old sayings about god

You know what to say, but you do not know what you might be told.

Proverbs and old sayings

One for sorrow, two for joy, Three for a girl, four for a boy. Five for silver, six for gold, And seven for a secret that must never be told.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about joy, secret, sadness

A Presbyterian minister had a son who was made Archdeacon of Ossery; when this was told to his father, he said, 'If my son will be a knave, I am glad that he will be an archknave. '

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

Of what you see, believe very little, of what you are told, nothing.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about nothing