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If you have ploughed with oxen, married a widow and never said a bad word - surely you go to heaven.

Proverbs and old sayings Finnish about word, bad luck, bad, contentment

A word once out flies everywhere.

Proverbs and old sayings French about word

From word to deed is a great space.

Proverbs and old sayings French about univers, word

Word by word the big books are made.

Proverbs and old sayings French about word, books

Take an ox by his horn, a man by his word.

Proverbs and old sayings French about word, man

'Twixt the word and the deed there's a long step.

Proverbs and old sayings French about word

The word of a woman is as a little feather on the water.

Proverbs and old sayings French about word, woman, water

The word of honour of a gentleman--another pledge would be better.

Proverbs and old sayings French about honour, word

To a quick ear half a word.

Proverbs and old sayings German about word

A man, a word; a word, a man.

Proverbs and old sayings German about word, man

Wait, is a hard word to the hungry.

Proverbs and old sayings German about word

When the word is out, it belongs to another.

Proverbs and old sayings German about word

Better one living word than a hundred dead ones.

Proverbs and old sayings German about word

What harm is there in a good word? It costs nothing.

Proverbs and old sayings German about word, nothing, good, good luck

How many daily read the Word, and yet from vice are not deterred.

Proverbs and old sayings German about vice, word

Who takes an eel by the tail or a woman by her word, grasp as he will, holds nothing fast.

Proverbs and old sayings German about fasting, word, woman, nothing

A word out of season may mar a whole lifetime.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek about season, word

One word spoken in anger may spoil an entire life.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek about anger, word, life

Whatever kind of word thou speakest, the like shalt thou bear.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek about word

In the word is life, in the word is death.

Proverbs and old sayings about word, death, life