The mouse in the wall may look at a cat, but he is wise not to squeak about it.
Proverbs and old sayings
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Don't paint the devil on the wall.
Proverbs and old sayings Finnish about devil
Don't paint the image of a demon on a wall.
Proverbs and old sayings Finnish
A white wall is the fool's paper.
Proverbs and old sayings French
You cannot get oil out of a wall.
Proverbs and old sayings French about contentment
A wall between increases love.
Proverbs and old sayings German about love
The sick man is vexed with the flies on the wall.
Proverbs and old sayings German about man
One may see through a wall, if there's a hole in it.
Proverbs and old sayings German
Love your neighbor, but don’t take down the separating-wall.
Proverbs and old sayings about love
Even the wall has an ear.
Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian
It is like peas thrown against the wall.
Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian
It is not good to paint the devil on the wall.
Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian about devil, good, good luck
There is no point in running ones head against the wall.
Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian about heads
When your neighbor's wall breaks, your own is in danger.
Proverbs and old sayings Icelandic about danger
The weakest go to the wall.
Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian
Hard upon hard never made a good wall.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about good, good luck
Hard with hard makes not the stone wall.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian
To protest and knock one's head against the wall is what everybody can do.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about heads
Nanny-goat neber? cratch him back till him see wall.
Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican
Quiet worms will bore a hole in the wall.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about quiet
