He who offers his back should not complain if it is beaten.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian
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Love has its own language, but marriage falls back on the local dialect.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian about language, marriage, love
If you do not strike back at him who hits you, there is no way for him to find out whether you also have hands.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian about contentment
Blessed is the moon; it goes but it comes back again.
Proverbs and old sayings about moon
Touch a gall'd Horse on the back and he will fling.
Proverbs and old sayings
Twa Daughters, and a back-door, are three stark thieves.
Proverbs and old sayings about thieves
A man canna bear a' his kin on his back.
Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about man
The back and the belly hauds every ane busy.
Proverbs and old sayings Scottish
Touch a gaw'd horse on the back and he'll fling.
Proverbs and old sayings Scottish
Set that down on the back side of your count-book.
Proverbs and old sayings Scottish
If it werena for the belly the back wad wear gowd.
Proverbs and old sayings Scottish
Better wade back mid water than gang forward and drown.
Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about water
Where ever you go, come back to your home.
Proverbs and old sayings Serbian about home, contentment
Bread and wine strengthen the back.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about wine
The short donkey doesn't carry on his back.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian
Think back, old trunk, to when you were a sprout.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about old, olderness, contentment
Who carries on his back is thrown from the saddle.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian
Spit at heaven and you'll get it back in your face.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about face, contentment
Ride on the back of a mare, but on the shoulders of horses.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian
If you close the door, the devil will turn his back on you.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about devil, contentment
