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Better be the head of a pike than the tail of a sturgeon.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about heads

Better be the head of the yeomanry than the tail of the gentry.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about heads

So long as you don't step on a snail's tail, he won't get up and bite you.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about contentment

The horse may run quickly, but it can't escape its own tail.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian

I have a sliddery Eel by the tail.

Proverbs and old sayings

Quhen the craw flees, her tail follows.

Proverbs and old sayings

Tread on a Worm and she will stir her tail.

Proverbs and old sayings

He that owes the Cow goes nearest her tail.

Proverbs and old sayings

It is ill to make a bowing horn of a tods tail.

Proverbs and old sayings

As long as ye bear the tod, ye man bear up his tail.

Proverbs and old sayings about man

Ye'll ne'er cast saut on his tail.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

She frisks about like a cat's tail i' the sun

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about sun

He sits wi' sits on his neighbour's coat tail.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

Ye have nothing to do but suck and wag your tail.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about nothing

Flee as fast as you will, your fortune will be at your tail.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about fasting, wealth, contentment

Do not measure the wolf's tail till he is dead.

Proverbs and old sayings Serbian about measure

The ass dead, the barley at his tail.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

A pig's tail will never make a good arrow.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about good, good luck

The full-fed cow makes company of her tail.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about companies

The pig's tail will never make a good arrow.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about good, good luck