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A man's heart is not a sack open to all.

Proverbs and old sayings Rwandan about heart, man

Meikle crack fills nae sack.

Proverbs and old sayings

An auld sack craves much clouting.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

Ane may bind a sack before it be fou'.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

An empty sack cannot stand up alone.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

You can't make a rattle with a single walnut in a sack.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about contentment

Two cats will not live together in one sack.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans

Honor and money cannot go in the same sack.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about money

Like a collier's sack, bad without and worse within.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about bad luck, bad

Marriage is a sack full of ninety-nine snakes and one eel.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about marriage

A malicious man is like a coal sack -- black on the outside and even blacker inside.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about magic, man

At the bottom of the sack you will find the bill.

Proverbs and old sayings Swiss about bills, contentment

White flowers are not to be found in a coal sack.

Proverbs and old sayings about flowers

Entreat him in jackass fashion; if he won't carry the sack, give him a whack.

Proverbs and old sayings German about fashion

Three or four daily will bring you to the bottom of the sack.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about contentment

Uncollected olives, left at random fill neither the saddle bag nor the little sack.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian