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Drive the horse with oats, not with curses and oaths.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish

When a crow is killed by a storm, the fortuneteller says, He died by my curse.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian

After taking ninety-nine years to climb a stairway, the tortoise falls and says there is a curse on haste.

Proverbs and old sayings Maltese

Many things are too bad to be blessed, and too good to be cursed.

Proverbs and old sayings about things, bad luck, bad, good, good luck

Be not a shoemaker nor yet a shaft maker save for thyself alone: let the shoe be misshapen, or crooked the shaft, and a curse on thy head will be called.

Proverbs and old sayings about heads

Marriage and maids, don't suggest them because you'll be cursed.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about marriage, contentment