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Walls have ears

Proverbs and old sayings British about old, olderness

Walls have mice, mice [have] ears.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan

Walls have mice and mice have ears.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan

Walls are the notebooks of fools.

Proverbs and old sayings

Walls have ears, bottles have mouths.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese

Walls have ears, paper sliding doors have eyes.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about eyes

Walls sink and dunghills rise.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese

Walls don't have ears but they hear, they don't have mouths but they speak.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

Walls have ears, and little pots too.

Proverbs and old sayings

Walls have ears, doors have eyes.

Proverbs and old sayings Thai about eyes

I'm talking to the door, but I want the walls to hear me.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about talking

What a story these old walls could tell.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans, old, olderness

All are architects of fate working in these walls of time.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about destiny, time, americans

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

Who never built a house thinks that the walls grow out of the ground.

Proverbs and old sayings Estonian about home, house

Many hands can shatter stout walls.

Proverbs and old sayings

To preserve friendship one must build walls.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about friendship

Bushes have ears, walls have eyes.

Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican about eyes

Silent worms dig holes in the walls.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese