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If you enter the city of the blind, cover your eyes.
Persian Proverb
You can close the city gates but not the mouths of men.
Persian Proverb
Limerick was, Dublin is, and Cork shall be the finest city of the three.
Irish Proverb
You can close the city gates, but you can't close the people's mouths.
Persian Proverb
Good and bad make up a city.
Portuguese Proverb
If each person would sweep before his own house, the city would soon be clean.
Polish Proverb
If every man would sweep before his own door, the city would soon be clean.
Italian Proverb
A shy woman is worth a city, a shy man is worth a goat.
Kurdish Proverb
When in the city of the pretenders. Be pretending.
Thai Proverb
Monreale, a city without comfort, either it rains, or the wind blows, or bells ring for the dead.
Sicilian Proverb
Better a patient man than a warrior, one who controls his temper than one who takes a city.
Moroccan Proverb
Do not dwell in a city whose governor is a physician.
Traditional Proverb
When you are poor, you will have no visitors even if you live in a crowded city; once you become rich, you'll be surprised by visitors from alleged relatives even if you live in a remote location.
Chinese Proverb
The disgrace of the city is the fault of the citizens.
American Proverb
Do not dwell in a city where a horse does not neigh nor a dog bark.
English Proverb
The city, whose physician has the gout, is in a bad state.
Jewish Proverb
You can't fight City Hall.
Sicilian Proverb
The city that negotiates is half conquered.
French Proverb
Things may be traded in the city but it is the fisherman who brings in the food supply.
Sumerian Proverb
Where there is no grain, this is a sign of vengeance turned towards a city. Where there are no reeds, it is the worst of all poverty.
Sumerian Proverb
When liars enter by the city gate, in front of them there is a finger pointing at them, behind them there is a finger pointing at them.
Sumerian Proverb
Another city (town) - another temper.
Russian Proverb
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