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He is a fool that makes his doctor his heir.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans

He is a fool who makes his physician his heir.

Proverbs and old sayings French

The debts go to the next heir.

Proverbs and old sayings German

Winter is summer's heir.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

The absent one will not be the heir.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about absent

A rich man is either a rogue or a rogue's heir.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about wealth, man

The tears of an heir are laughter under a mask.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about laughter, tears

The heir's tears are but a mask to disguise his joy.

Proverbs and old sayings Mexican about tears, joy

An heir also inherits quarrels.

Proverbs and old sayings

Make your son you heir and not your steward.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about contentment

He is no great heir that inherits not his ancestor's virtues.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about ancestors

I gave the mouse a hole and she is become my heir.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian

If you wish to die young, make your physician your heir.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about wish, death, contentment

Only a fool will make a doctor his heir.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian

Mony dogs die or ye fa' heir.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about death

Ill won gear winna enrich the third heir.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

The patient who names a doctor his heir makes a big mistake.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about mistake

A rich man is either a scoundrel or the heir of a scoundrel.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about wealth, man

Let an ill man lie in thy straw, and he looks to be thy heir.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about lie, man