333 Proverbs about Dead / Page 2
21. Corner a dog in a dead-end street and it will turn and bite.
22. Dead songbirds make a sad meal.
23. Of a dead leopard we keep the skin, of man his reputation.
24. There are two perfectly good men, one dead, and the other unborn.
25. A blind cat catches only a dead rat.
26. A dead songbird gives us no meat.
27. Better a live beggar than a dead king.
28. Dead song-birds make a sad meal.
29. With money you can make the dead speak; without it you can't even keep the deaf quiet.
30. To-day red, to-morrow dead.
31. Dead dogs don't bite.
32. Dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking savour.
33. Look not out for dead men's shoes.
34. By the living we bury the dead.
35. Don't sell the bearskin before the bear is dead.
36. Even hares pull a lion by the beard when he is dead.
37. It's ill waiting for dead men's shoes.
38. We maun live by the living and no by the dead.
39. When a ewie's drowned she's dead.
40. Be happy while you're living, For you're a long time dead.
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