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Bone Proverbs
When two dogs fight over a bone, a third one carries it away.
Dutch Proverb
A dog with a bone in his mouth cannot bite you.
Kiganda Proverb
What's in the marrow is hard to take out of the bone.
Irish Proverb
To a dog a bone has more value than a pearl.
Filipino Proverb
He who shares the meat is always left with the bone.
Finnish Proverb
Two dogs seldom agree over one bone.
Dutch Proverb
Bone in chicken, relatives in man.
Myanmar Proverb
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
Gypsy Proverb
Where there is a bone, there are dogs.
Martinican Proverb
Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bone.
Moroccan Proverb
The bone given to you by the king is meat.
Namibian Proverb
It is the wandering dog that finds the old bone.
Sierra Leonean Proverb
A bone does not bring itself, it is people that bring it.
Bantu Proverb
You can't teach an old dog how to gnaw a bone.
Darkovan Proverb
A tongue has no bone.
Swahili Proverb
A dry bone is never licked.
Albanian Proverb
Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes straight to the bone.
English Proverb
Two dogs over one bone seldom agree.
German Proverb
Two dogs fight for a bone and a third runs away with it.
Italian Proverb
There is never a fish without a bone, and no man without faults.
Norwegian Proverb
When herring mauger him bone show.
Jamaican Proverb
The nearer the bone, the sweeter the meat.
Jamaican Proverb
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