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That land fares ill where the king's but a babe.

Proverbs and old sayings

In the land of the blind, one-eye is king.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about blind

Fortune is round; it makes one a king, another a dunghill.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about wealth

Must is a king's word.

Proverbs and old sayings English about word

A king's face should show grace.

Proverbs and old sayings English about grace, face

An illiterate king is a crowned ass.

Proverbs and old sayings English

Breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, dine like a pauper.

Proverbs and old sayings English

At the end of the game the king and the pawn go into the same bag.

Proverbs and old sayings English about games, end

Who shares is a king.

Proverbs and old sayings Estonian

The law says what the king pleases.

Proverbs and old sayings French about law

At the king's court every one for himself.

Proverbs and old sayings French

He who eats the king's cow lean, pays for it fat.

Proverbs and old sayings French

Where there is nothing the king loses his rights.

Proverbs and old sayings French about nothing

The silence of the people is a warning for the king.

Proverbs and old sayings French about silence, people

The greatest king must at last go to bed with a shovel.

Proverbs and old sayings French

A noble prince or king never has a coin to bless himself.

Proverbs and old sayings French

The best company must part, as King Dagobert said to his hounds.

Proverbs and old sayings French about companies

He who eats of the king's goose will void a feather forty years after.

Proverbs and old sayings French

A party of two is that of God; of three of the king; of four is of the devil.

Proverbs and old sayings French about devil, god

A king's son is no nobler than his company.

Proverbs and old sayings about companies