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Eat with the devil but give him a long spoon.

Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican about devil

No call alligator long mouth till you pass him.

Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican about contentment

No road is too long in the company of a friend.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about companies

Don't stay long when the husband is not at home.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about husband, home

If you wait long enough, it will be good weather.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about weather, good, good luck, contentment

Do not stay too long when the husband is not home.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about husband, home

Even when months and days are long, life is short.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about day, life

Life is a long journey with a heavy bag on its back.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about life

If you think about things too long, good thoughts will disappear.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about things, good, good luck, contentment

Only when the coffin is closed will we see how long lasting is the name.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about name

The tongue is but three inches long, yet it can kill a man six feet high.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about man

If you sit by the river long enough, you will see the body of your enemy float by.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about body, enemies, contentment

Be the day weary or be the day long, at last it ringeth to evensong.

Proverbs and old sayings Jewish about day

A rope which is pulled for a long time, breaks.

Proverbs and old sayings about time

A long lawsuit breeds poverty.

Proverbs and old sayings about poverty

There's nothing wrong with charity... as long as it winds up in your pocket.

Proverbs and old sayings about charity, bad, nothing

The miser and the open-handed spend the same in long run.

Proverbs and old sayings

Ponder long before you act.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about contentment

Short cuts are long ways round.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

That which is violent never lasts long.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin