333 Proverbs about Dead / Page 12
221. No matter how hard you throw a dead fish in the water, it still won't swim.
222. Do not dispose of the monkey's tail before he is dead.
223. Don't cut off the monkey's tail before it is dead.
224. What is said over the dead lion's body, could not be said to him alive.
225. You inherit from the dead, not from the sick.
226. The dead cannot come to kinsmen's aid.
227. The dead in heaven is too happy to grieve for indignities to his corpse; the dead in hell has too much else to grieve for.
228. Idleness is to be dead at the limbs but alive within.
229. Cattle die, kinsmen die, and so shall you die too. But one thing I know that never dies: the fame of a dead man's deeds.
230. Always speak well of the dead.
231. Dead men do not bite.
232. Even a hare will insult a dead lion.
233. Even hares insult a dead lion.
234. He talks to a dead man.
235. He that gapeth until he be fed, Well may he gape until he is dead.
236. Speak not against the dead.
237. Stone dead hath no fellow.
238. The dead are the best counsellors.
239. Though living, dead for all useful purposes.
240. Trust not a woman, even when dead.
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