Though the ass may carry a sack of gold, it nevertheless feeds on thistles.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish
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Don't buy a cat in a sack.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about commerce
Many words don't fill the sack.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about word
If he won't carry the sack, give him a whack.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch
When the sack is full, it pricks up its ears.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch
When a mouse has fallen into a meal sack, he thinks he is the miller himself.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch
Eggs and metal should not be put in the same sack.
Proverbs and old sayings
A sack is best tied before it is full.
Proverbs and old sayings French
White meal is not got out of a coal-sack.
Proverbs and old sayings French
You never get clean flour from a coal sack.
Proverbs and old sayings French about contentment
When God sends flour the devil carries off the sack.
Proverbs and old sayings French about devil, god
A sack was never so full but that it would hold another grain.
Proverbs and old sayings French
The last stole the sack.
Proverbs and old sayings German
Words don't will the sack.
Proverbs and old sayings German about word
An empty sack will not stand upright.
Proverbs and old sayings German
We beat the sack and mean the miller.
Proverbs and old sayings German
A sack full of fleas is easier to watch than a woman.
Proverbs and old sayings German about woman
A handful of might is better than a sack full of right.
Proverbs and old sayings German about rightness
It's a poor mouse that sits on the sack and doesn't gnaw.
Proverbs and old sayings German
Make yourself an ass, and every one will lay his sack on you.
Proverbs and old sayings German about contentment
