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One foe is too many, and a hundred friends are too few.

Proverbs and old sayings German

One bird in the dish is better than a hundred in the air.

Proverbs and old sayings German about air

Revenge of an hundred years old hath still its sucking teeth.

Proverbs and old sayings German about revenge, old, olderness

One enemy can harm you more than a hundred friends can do you good.

Proverbs and old sayings German about enemies, contentment, good, good luck

An error no wider than a hair will lead a hundred miles away from the goal.

Proverbs and old sayings German about purpose, error

You cannot stop a whore, not even with a hundred horses.

Proverbs and old sayings Gypsy about gypsies, contentment

The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the horse thief not one.

Proverbs and old sayings Gypsy about gypsies, thieves, eyes

Two coins in a purse make more noise than a hundred.

Proverbs and old sayings

Admission by the defendant is worth a hundred witnesses.

Proverbs and old sayings

One fool makes a hundred.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

Even one hundred words lead to one end.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian about word, end

You'd better have one hundred who envy you than one who is sorry for you.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian about envy, contentment

A fool may throw a stone into a well which a hundred wise cannot take out.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

It is better one time to see things than one hundred times to hear about them.

Proverbs and old sayings Icelandic about things, time

I met a hundred men going to Delhi and everyone is my brother.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about man

After eating nine hundred rats, the cat is now going on a pilgrimage.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian

In my homeland I possess one hundred horses, yet if I go, I go on foot.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about homeland

May you live to be a hundred -- and decide then rest for yourself.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about rest, contentment

One good morsel and a hundred vexations.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about good, good luck

He who chastises one threatens a hundred.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian