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Friends and mules fail in hard trials.

Proverbs and old sayings

He who plays with a sword plays with the devil.

Proverbs and old sayings about devil

The bad neighbour gives a needle without thread.

Proverbs and old sayings about bad luck, bad

He that is won with a nut, may be lost with an apple.

Proverbs and old sayings

He that is unkind to his own will not be kind to others.

Proverbs and old sayings

You a lady, I a lady, who is to put the sow out of doors?

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

I see by my mother-in-law's eyes when the devil takes hold of her.

Proverbs and old sayings about law, eyes, mother, devil

The cow that does not eat with the oxen, either eats before or after them.

Proverbs and old sayings

The fox goes through the corn and does not eat, but brushes it down with his tail.

Proverbs and old sayings

It is strange! The ox eats hay and the dog eats bread, while the donkey carries wine but drinks water.

Proverbs and old sayings about wine, water

Before healing others, heal yourself.

Proverbs and old sayings

However black a cow is, the milk is always white.

Proverbs and old sayings about magic

Giant silk cotton trees grow out of very tiny seeds.

Proverbs and old sayings

If a child's hands are clean, he can eat with elders.

Proverbs and old sayings about children

An adult squatting sees farther than a child on top of tree.

Proverbs and old sayings about children

If a donkey kicks you and you kick back, you are both donkeys.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

A fly that has no one to advice it, follows the corpse into the grave.

Proverbs and old sayings about advice

No matter how long a log may float in the water, it will never become a crocodile.

Proverbs and old sayings about water

What ripens quickly, rots quickly.

Proverbs and old sayings Ugandan

If you laugh at the bowl, you laugh at the potter.

Proverbs and old sayings Ugandan about contentment