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Better a lean agreement than a fat lawsuit.

Proverbs and old sayings German

Every one basteth the fat hog, while the lean one burneth.

Proverbs and old sayings German

Do not lean on a worm-eaten staff.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek

You can only lean against that which resists.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about contentment

A lean horse does not kick.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

Flies flock to the lean horse.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

A fat kitchen, a lean testament.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about kitchen

You must take the fat with the lean.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about contentment

Better a lean agreement than a fat sentence.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

Starlings are lean because they go in flocks.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

In a wealthy man's house there is no lean dog.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about home, house, man

The hedge is trodden down where it seems to lean.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

The hedge is trodden down where it seems to lean. [Vis. , at its weakest point. ]

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

Fortune is like a wall that falls on those who lean on it.

Proverbs and old sayings Mexican about wealth

Don't lean on your fellow men -- theirs is an ever moving support.

Proverbs and old sayings New Zealand about man

To the lean pig a fat acorn.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese

A goose, a woman, and a goat, are bad things lean.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about things, woman, bad luck, bad

The envious man's face grows lean and his eye swells.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about face, man

Long lean wakes hameald cattell.

Proverbs and old sayings

Ye're no light where lean a'.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about light