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Ring the bells for whoever eats snails and drinks water, because he's dead.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about water

Better no ring, nor the ring of a rash.

Proverbs and old sayings

The big bells have to ring, in order for the little bells to ring.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about order

To sit by the ring and tell the man inside, 'knock him down. '

Proverbs and old sayings about man

An ape's an ape, though he wear a gold ring.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

Better when birds sing than where irons ring.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

Even if a monkey wears a golden ring, it is and remains an ugly thing.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about things

All of you that intend to ring, you undertake a dangerous thing.

Proverbs and old sayings English about things, contentment

One cannot ring the bells and walk in the procession.

Proverbs and old sayings French

Wisdom without morality is like a ring without a gem.

Proverbs and old sayings about morality, wisdom

An iron ring made of wood.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

A golden ring can tie a man as tight as any chain.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about man

A ring on a good woman's finger is no good without a blouse on her back.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about good, good luck, woman

A gold ring does not cure a felon.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

Don't put too tight a ring on your finger.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

If I have lost the ring I still have the fingers.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian