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The court of Rome likes not sheep without wool.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

It is better to give away the wool than the sheep.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

Great cry and little wool, as the man said who shaved the sow.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about man

Noh care how boar hog try fi hide under sheep wool, 'im grunt always betray 'im.

Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican

You seek wool from a donkey!

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about contentment

Would you shear a donkey for wool!

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about contentment

One who would quarrel about goats' wool.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

The avenging gods have their feet clothed in wool.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about gods

One who would quarrel about goats' wool. [A most captious person. ]

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about people

Little by little the wool becomes a carpet.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian

Much cry and little wool.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese

All the wool is hair, more or less.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese

Rather lose the wool than the sheep.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese

You go to an ass for wool.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about contentment

Went to get wool, but returned bald.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian

Great cry and little wool, as the Devil said when he sheared the sow.

Proverbs and old sayings about devil

For sulphur, wheat, wine, and wool, come to the towns of Sicily.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about wine

A sheep's wool sky means wind's to follow, either a Levant or a West wind or a Sirocco.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about sky

When you see a sheep's wool sky you know, if it doesn't rain today, it will rain in the morning.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about rain, sky, contentment

Some have the fame, and other card the wool.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about fame