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Better walk before a hen than behind an ox.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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Better walk on wooden legs, than be carried on a wooden bier.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Danish)
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Better walk unshackled in a green meadow, than be bound to a
thorn-brush.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Danish)
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Better weak beer than an empty cask.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Danish)
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Better wear out shoes than sheets.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (English)
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Better wed over the mixen than over the moor.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (English)
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Better when birds sing than where irons ring.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Dutch)
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Better whole than patched in gold.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Danish)
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Better, There he goes, than There he hangs.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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Between a woman's "Yes" and "No" there is no room for the point
of a needle.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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Between evil tongues and evil ears, there is nothing to choose.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Danish)
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Between neighbours' gardens a hedge is not amiss.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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Between promising and giving a man should marry his daughter.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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Between saying and doing there is a great distance.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Danish)
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Between saying and doing there is a long road.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Spanish)
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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian)
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Between smith and smith no money passes.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Portuguese, Spanish)
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Between the hand and the lip the morsel may slip.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Portuguese)
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Between the hand and the lip the soup may be spilt.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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Between the hand and the mouth the soup is lost.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Portuguese, Spanish)
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Between the hand and the mouth the soup is often spilt.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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Between the hand and the mouth the soup is spilt.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian)
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Between two cowards, he has the advantage who first detects the
other.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian)
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Between two friends a notary and two witnesses.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Spanish)
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Between two sharpers, the sharpest.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Spanish)
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Between two stools one falls to the ground.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Spanish)
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Between two stools the breech comes to the ground.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Dutch, French)
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Between two stools you come to the ground.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Dutch, French)
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Between wording and working is a long road.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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Between wrangling and disputing truth is lost.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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Betwixt two stools the doup fas down.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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Beware of "Had I but known."
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian)
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Beware of a bad woman, and put no trust in a good one.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Portuguese, Spanish)
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Beware of a door that has many keys.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Portuguese)
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Beware of a man of one book.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (English)
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Beware of a man that does not talk, and of a dog that does not
bark.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Portuguese)
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Beware of a man's shadow and a bee's sting.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Burmese)
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Beware of a pledge that eats.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Portuguese)
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Beware of a poor alchemist.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian)
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Beware of a reconciled enemy.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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Beware of a reconciled friend as of the devil.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Spanish)
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Beware of a silent dog and still water.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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Beware of a white Spaniard and a black Englishman.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Dutch)
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Beware of an oak, it draws the stroke; avoid an ash, it counts
the flash; creep under the thorn, it can save you from harm.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Dutch)
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Beware of laughing hosts and weeping priests.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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Beware of men who flourish hereditary honors.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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Beware of one who flatters unduly; he will also censure unjustly.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Arabian)
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Beware of one who has nothing to lose.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian)
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Beware of people who dislike cats.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Irish)
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Beware of still water, a still dog, and a still enemy.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Yiddish)
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