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An inch is a great deal on a nose.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

Better own a trifle than want a great deal.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about hope

A little gall make a great deal of honey bitter.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about bitter

The spider and the fly can't make a deal.

Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican

It is foolish to deal with a fool.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese

We learn little from victory, but a great deal from defeat.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about defeat, victory

I shall speak facts; but some will say I deal in fiction.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about fiction

He getteth a great deal of credit, who payeth but a small debt.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

Kif is like fire; a little warms, a great deal burns.

Proverbs and old sayings Moroccan about fire, fire brigade

Teaching a Jew to deal in the market is like teaching grandmother to eat her eggs.

Proverbs and old sayings about teaching, stores

In a deal there are two fools: the one who asks too much and the one who asks too little.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian

Ne'er say Ill fallow to him you deal wi'.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about contentment

I ken I hae a gude deal o' the cuddy in me.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

Beware when you deal with sharpies.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about contentment

Let me deal with my troubles myself.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about problems

He who has to deal with a blockhead has need of much brains.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about need

It's better to deal with the devil we know than the devil we don't know.

Proverbs and old sayings Syrian about devil

He who knows a great deal has a hundred eyes.

Proverbs and old sayings Tibetan about eyes

A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and rop makes an inundation.

Proverbs and old sayings