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He who gossips and he who listens to it deserve to be thrown to the dogs.

Proverbs and old sayings

When two friends part they have to lock up each other's secrets and throw away the key.

Proverbs and old sayings

Better is an ass that carries you than a horse that throws you.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about contentment

Better to ride an ass that carries me than a horse that throws me.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

It is better to ride a donkey that carries you than a horse that throws you.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about contentment

Try this bracelet: if it fits you wear it; but if it hurts you, throw it away no matter how shiny.

Proverbs and old sayings Kenyan about contentment

Who holds his peace and gathers stones, will find a time to throw them.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about peace, time

Better ride on an ass that carries me than a horse that throws me.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian

He that marries a widow will have a dead man's head often thrown in his dish.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about heads, man

God save you from narrow doorways, a caning, stones thrown at the blind and the weighing of shop keepers.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about blind, god, contentment

Give me the ass that carries me in preference to the horse that throws me.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

I would rather have a donkey that can carry me than a horse that throws me.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

He who marries a widow will often have a dead man's head thrown in his dish.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about heads, man

He that marries a widow will often have a dead man's head thrown into the dish.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about heads, man

I have rather an ass that carries me than a horse that throws me.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish

If a woman sees a stick for beating her rival, she will throw it away in the woods.

Proverbs and old sayings Ugandan about woman