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Admonish your friends in private, praise them in public.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about public, praise

He dwells far from neighbours that is fain to praise himself.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about praise

Don't praise your furnace when the house is cold.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about praise, home, house

Self-praise is nae honour.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about self-control, honour, praise

Toom ruse means empty praise.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about praise

It's stinking praise comes oot o' ane's own mouth.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about praise

Don't praise the daylight before it is evening.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about praise

Everyone knows that you mustn't praise a good wine, a good horse and a good wife.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about praise, good, good luck, wine, wife, contentment

In the presence of your neighbor don't praise your wife or his.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about praise, wife

Never praise life in front of death, nor the beautiful day in front of night.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about praise, night, death, life, day

Self-praise smells bad.

Proverbs and old sayings Swedish about self-control, praise, bad luck, bad

To praise is to assess.

Proverbs and old sayings Swedish about praise

Over-praise is a burden.

Proverbs and old sayings Swedish about burden, praise

One does not accept praise from anybody.

Proverbs and old sayings Swedish about praise

We praise in order to be praised in return.

Proverbs and old sayings Swedish about order, praise

One talks against praise in order to hear it once again

Proverbs and old sayings Swedish about order, praise

Don't praise my good fortune before I'm dead and buried.

Proverbs and old sayings Tibetan about praise, wealth, good, good luck

Neither blame or praise yourself.

Proverbs and old sayings about praise

Even too much praise is a burden.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish about burden, praise

Condemn a man within earshot; praise him at a distance.

Proverbs and old sayings Yugoslavian about praise, man