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Even old foxes are caught in the snare.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about old, olderness

An old flag is an honour to its captain.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about honour, old, olderness

Old thanks cannot be used for new gifts.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about gifts, old, olderness

Hard is a new law imposed on old licence.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about law, old, olderness

As demure as an old whore at a christening.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about old, olderness

An old dog does not grow used to the collar.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about old, olderness

Happy is she who is in love with an old dotard.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about happiness, love, old, olderness

It is better to irritate a dog than an old woman.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about woman, old, olderness

He who would be long an old man must begin betimes.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about man, old, olderness

Men are as old as they fell, and women as they look.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about man, old, olderness

A hundred-year-old revenge still has its baby teeth.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about revenge, old, olderness

Revenge a hundred years old has still its milk-teeth.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about revenge, old, olderness

Wise lads and old fools were never good for anything.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about good, good luck, old, olderness

Men are as old as they feel, women as old as they look.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about man, old, olderness

If young men had wit and old men strength everything might be well done.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about man, old, olderness

If the young man knew, if the old man could, there is nothing but would be done.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about nothing, man, old, olderness

An old debt is better than an old grudge.

Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican about old, olderness

A new broom sweeps clean, but an old broom knows every corner.

Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican about old, olderness

Scratch an old woman's back and she will let you taste her pepper pot.

Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican about woman, old, olderness, contentment

Old age cures us of our youth.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about olderness, youth, age, old