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Make yourself an ass, and you'll have every man's sack on your shoulders.

Proverbs and old sayings German about man, contentment

An empty sack cannot stand up.

Proverbs and old sayings Hatian

An empty sack doesn't stand up.

Proverbs and old sayings Hatian

The sack has found its patch.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

The nail sticks out of the sack.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

Where pig is proffered, go round with a sack.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

A full sack pricks up its ear.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

Bad is the sack that will not bear patching.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about bad luck, bad

Every one goes with his own sack to the mill.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

Nothing can come out of a sack but what is in it.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about nothing

A ragged sack holds no grain, a poor man is not taken into counsel.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about moral, man

The sack of longing has no bottom.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about longing

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverbs and old sayings Jewish about love

All that meal comes not from your own sack.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

One lie can fill a sack; a second will empty it again.

Proverbs and old sayings about lie

The son-in-law's sack is never full.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about law

Honour and profit will not keep in one sack.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about honour

Good words fill not a sack.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about word, good, good luck

An empty sack cannot stand upright.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian

If God sends you meal, the devil takes the sack.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about devil, god, contentment