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You can't push on a rope.
Persian Proverb
If the rope is weak, pull gently.
Dutch Proverb
Don't break down, rope; this is the last jerk.
Mexican Proverb
When you chop off a snake's head all you are left with is a piece of rope.
Bambara Proverb
Put a rope around your neck and many will be happy to drag you along.
Egyptian Proverb
If you put a rope around your neck, many people will be glad to drag you by it.
Egyptian Proverb
Catch the halter rope and it will lead you to the donkey.
Moroccan Proverb
In the hangman's house you will always find a rope.
Netherlands Antillean Proverb
The rope will break where it is thinnest.
Netherlands Antillean Proverb
Time is longer than a rope.
Zanzibar Proverb
Bad and good are intertwined like rope.
Japanese Proverb
Having been bitten by a snake, he's afraid of a rope.
Afghan Proverb
The rope of a lie is short.
Arabic Proverb
If God bids thee draw, he will find thee a rope; if he bids thee ride, he will find thee a horse.
Danish Proverb
Don't talk about a rope in the house of someone whose father was hung.
Irish Proverb
Never mention rope in the house of a man who has been hanged.
Portuguese Proverb
Time and the hour are not to be tied with a rope.
Portuguese Proverb
Don't pull hard enough to break the rope.
Portuguese Proverb
An adder with its poisonous fangs taken out is nothing more than a piece of rope.
Hindi Proverb
He hauls at a long rope who expects another's death.
Italian Proverb
The rope breaks where it is thinnest.
Hungarian Proverb
The older the goat the tighter the rope.
Lithuanian Proverb
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