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Don't make an oven of your cap or a garden of your belly.

Proverbs and old sayings French about garden

To make a happy couple, the husband must be deaf and the wife blind.

Proverbs and old sayings French about couple, husband, happiness, blind, wife

He who wishes to make a golden door drives a nail into it every day.

Proverbs and old sayings French about day

Most men employ the earlier part of their life to make the other miserable.

Proverbs and old sayings French about life, man

Even God cannot make two mountains without a valley in between.

Proverbs and old sayings about god

Some people make things happen, some watch things happen, while others wonder what has happened.

Proverbs and old sayings about miracle, things, people

Many small make a great.

Proverbs and old sayings German

Many hands make quick work.

Proverbs and old sayings German about work

Old thieves make good jailers.

Proverbs and old sayings German about thieves, good, good luck, old, olderness

Little fishes make the pike big.

Proverbs and old sayings German

Empty casks make the most sound.

Proverbs and old sayings German

Salt and bread make the cheeks red.

Proverbs and old sayings German

Love, thieves, and fear, make ghosts.

Proverbs and old sayings German about thieves, fear, love

Cheese and bread make the cheeks red.

Proverbs and old sayings German

A lordly taste make a beggar's purse.

Proverbs and old sayings German

A bad beginning may make a good ending.

Proverbs and old sayings German about beginning, bad luck, bad, good, good luck

Wine and women make fools of everybody.

Proverbs and old sayings German about wine

What we want in hay we make up in straw.

Proverbs and old sayings German

You cannot make a sieve of an ass's tail.

Proverbs and old sayings German about contentment

When a thing is done, make the best of it.

Proverbs and old sayings German about things