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Tomorrow we sit by the wall and here it all.

Proverbs and old sayings

Three things to fear: a crumbling wall, an angry dog, and a shrew.

Proverbs and old sayings about fear, things

A dog will jump over a wall when cornered.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

A dog in desperation will leap over a wall.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

The great wall stands; the builder is gone.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

Do not tear down the east wall to repair the west.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

One family builds the wall, two families enjoy it.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about family

There are always ears on the other side of the wall.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

When a centipede dies on the wall it does not fall down.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about fall

A friend made is a road paved; an enemy created is a wall built.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about enemies

A person peeing right against a wall most certainly has an Adam's apple.

Proverbs and old sayings about rightness, people

It needs a high wall to keep out fear.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about fear

It is bad to lean against a falling wall.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about bad luck, bad

It is well to have clean bread in one's wallet.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

One beggar likes not that another has two wallets.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

If the ball does not stick to the wall, yet 'twill leave some mark.

Proverbs and old sayings

The mouse in the wall may look at a cat, but he is wise not to squeak about it.

Proverbs and old sayings

While the mouse in the walls may look from afar at a cat, he does well not to go squeaking about it.

Proverbs and old sayings

Hunger eats through stone walls.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about hunger

The heaviest baggage for a traveler is an empty wallet.

Proverbs and old sayings English