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It is easy to catch a serpent with someone else's hand.

Proverbs and old sayings about trap

At table keep short hand; in company keep a short tongue.

Proverbs and old sayings about companies

Give cheerfully with one hand and you will gather well with two.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

Give a helping hand to a man in trouble.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about problems, man

A white glove often conceals a dirty hand.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

He dies twice who perishes by his own hand.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

One bird in the hand is worth four in the air.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about air

It is all over: I may as well go and hand myself.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

A wise man will make tools of what comes to hand.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about tools, man

Offer not the right hand of friendship to every one.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about friendship, rightness

The hand often travels to the part where the pain is.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about pain

If you strike a goad with your fist, your hand will suffer most.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about suffering, contentment

With one hand he scratches you, and with the other he strikes you.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about contentment

If the palm of the hand itches it signifies the coming of great luck.

Proverbs and old sayings about bad luck, good luck

Whichever hand is cut, the whole body feels the pain.

Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about pain, body

You can catch a cricket in your hand but its song is all over the field.

Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about trap, contentment

Clapping with the right hand only will not make a noise.

Proverbs and old sayings Guatemalan about rightness

Clapping with the right hand only will not produce a noise.

Proverbs and old sayings Malaysian about rightness

As long as you happen to put your hand in a container full of pickles, might as well dip your whole arm in the container.

Proverbs and old sayings Malaysian about contentment

A stone from the hand of a friend is an apple.

Proverbs and old sayings