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Bare is brotherless back.

Proverbs and old sayings

Bare gentry are braging and beggars.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

Bare-footed men need not tread upon thorns.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about need, man

Bare is a brotherless behind.

Proverbs and old sayings Swedish

More things belong to marriage than four bare legs in a bed.

Proverbs and old sayings British about marriage, things

'Tis too late to spare when the cask is bare.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

Who sows thorns let him not walk bare-foot.

Proverbs and old sayings French

He that will bare-foot go must not plant a garden of thistle.

Proverbs and old sayings French about garden

Tis too late to spare when the pocket is bare.

Proverbs and old sayings German

'Tis too late to spare, when the bottom is bare.

Proverbs and old sayings German

A book is a good friend when it lays bare the errors of the past.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about error, past, good, good luck

Long sleep makes a bare back.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about sleep

It's hard to take britches off bare hips.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

There goes more to marriage than four bare legs in a bed.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about marriage

But now I was a rich man, three things have left me bare; dice, wine, and women, these three have made me poor.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about wine, wealth, things, man

Better a bare foot than none.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian

None more bare than the shoemaker's wife and the smith's mare.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about wife

All are not maidens that wears bare hair.

Proverbs and old sayings

Hair, and hair, makes the Carles head bare.

Proverbs and old sayings about heads

There belongs mair to a bed nor four bare leggs.

Proverbs and old sayings