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The smoke caused by meat which is roasted does not cause pain in the eyes of a hungry person.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about smoke, pain, eyes, people

Don't laugh at the nakedness of our ancestors because before their eyes we're all naked for our spirits belong to them.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about ancestors, eyes

Cast the beam out of your own eye before you try to cast the mote from the eyes of your neighbour.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about eyes, americans, contentment

When a blind man dies, he is praised as having beautiful eyes.

Proverbs and old sayings about blind, eyes, man

He who peeps at the neighbor's window may chance to lose his eyes.

Proverbs and old sayings about chance, eyes

If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, it would make him pull his hat over his eyes.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about eyes, man

Absence is the enemy of love; as the distance is from the eyes, so it is from the heart.

Proverbs and old sayings Dominican about enemies, eyes, heart, love

Those that eat cherries with great persons shall have their eyes squirted out with the stones.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about people, eyes

None ever took a stone out of the temple but the dust did fly in his eyes.

Proverbs and old sayings English about eyes

You cannot eat downwind, you will get the chaff in your eyes.

Proverbs and old sayings Estonian about eyes, contentment

Whether it rains or stops raining, the lentils have two eyes.

Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian about eyes

One should choose a wife with the ears, rather than with the eyes.

Proverbs and old sayings French about eyes, wife

The devil was so fond of his children that he plucked out their eyes.

Proverbs and old sayings French about children, eyes, devil

If you don't want to be deceived, you must have as many eyes as hairs on the head.

Proverbs and old sayings German about eyes, heads, contentment

He is a good storyteller who can turn a man's ears into eyes.

Proverbs and old sayings Moroccan about eyes, good, good luck, man

The camel never sees his own hump, but that of his brother is always in his eyes.

Proverbs and old sayings Moroccan about eyes

If you weep for all the sorrows in this world, in the end you will have no eyes.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish about eyes, world, end, contentment

Traditional Wexford Curse

May the grass grow at your door and the fox build his nest on your hearthstone.
May the light fade from your eyes, so you never see what you love.
May your own blood rise against you, and the sweetest drink you...

Spells and incantations British