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Bulls make money and bears make money, but hogs just get slaughtered.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about money, americans

Men make houses, women make homes.

Proverbs and old sayings British about man

With water make rivers, with rice make armies.

Proverbs and old sayings Cambodian about water

Unplowed fields make hollow bellies; unread books make hollow minds.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about books

You can make a mule cross the river but you cant make him drink the water.

Proverbs and old sayings about drinking, water, contentment

The devil can make a pot but he can't make a lid.

Proverbs and old sayings Croatian about devil

Promises make debts, and debts make promises.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

Do not make me kiss and you will not make me sin.

Proverbs and old sayings English about kiss, sin, contentment

Let him make use of instinct who cannot make use of reason.

Proverbs and old sayings English about instinct, use, reason

Men make laws; women make morals.

Proverbs and old sayings French about man

If you don't make mistakes you don't make anything.

Proverbs and old sayings German about contentment

Drops join to make a stream; ears combine to make a crop.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian

It is easier to make a camel jump a ditch than to make a fool listen to reason.

Proverbs and old sayings about reason

Don't make yourself poor to one who won't make you rich.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about wealth, contentment

Not all who make love make marriages.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about love

You can judge what you make by what others make.

Proverbs and old sayings Serbian about judges, contentment

Water and sun make work, water and wind make grain.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about water, sun, work

With friends make agreements, with relatives make contracts.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

Anyone can make a spoon, but not everyone can make the handle.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish

One does not like hot, the other does not like cold; make it tepid to make an agreement.

Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy