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When misers die, children open up their coffers.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about children, death

Bury truth in a golden coffin, it will break it open.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about truth

The castle gates will always open for gold-laden donkeys.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian

A man's heart is not a sack open to all.

Proverbs and old sayings Rwandan about heart, man

The door is always open to the bearer of gifts.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about gifts

If you leave the safe open even a saint will sin.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about saints, sin, contentment

A hitch makes a calf, a sty makes a pig, the open field makes lamb, the hay barn makes a kid goat.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

Death is the key that will open a miser's coffers.

Proverbs and old sayings about death

The gates of hell are always open, even at midnight.

Proverbs and old sayings Czechoslovak about hell

An open door tempts a saint.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about saints

When one door shuts, a hundred open.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

Where friars abound keep your eyes open.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about eyes

The righteous man sins before an open chest.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about sin, man

The open house makes a good man of the thief.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about thieves, home, house, good, good luck, man

Keep your weather-eye open.

Proverbs and old sayings about weather

A slattern woman hold open the door to hell.

Proverbs and old sayings Welsh about hell, woman

A golden key will open every lock.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish