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Let the cobbler stick to his last.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian

If the ball does not stick to the wall, it will at least leave a mark.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian

You could even hew sticks on head.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about heads, contentment

Don't raise your stick and the dog won't bark at you.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about contentment

Fools should have no chappin sticks.

Proverbs and old sayings

As unsteady as an egg on a stick.

Proverbs and old sayings

The crook in the old stick is ill to take out.

Proverbs and old sayings about old, olderness

Nae butter will stick to my bread.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

Fools shou'd na hae chapping sticks.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

A man is a man to the extent that he sticks by his word.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about word, man

Donkeys and women, beat them with a stick, to keep them at task.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

You can't drive donkeys without a stick, nor horses without spurs.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about contentment

You drive a donkey with a stick, an ox and a mule with a prod, and the horse with a whip and spurs.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about contentment

The last partridge to rise gets the most sticks thrown at it.

Proverbs and old sayings

The quail waits for the stick; the idle loiterer about a place waits for a kick from an old boot.

Proverbs and old sayings about old, olderness

There's no argument like that of the stick.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

A dog won't bite you if you are carrying a stick.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about contentment

A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about progress

He that stirs honey will have some of it stick to him.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

If this ball does not stick to the wall it will at least leave a mark.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish