— American A dead bee will make no honey.
— English A dead body has its coffin, and a live man his hut.
— Russian A dead goat does not fear the knife.
— African (Ga) A wet hand will hold a dead herring.
— English ❖ A sharpened knife will not butcher a dead cow.
— African (Fulani) A miser is like a sow, useful only when dead.
— Czech A dead man does not make war.
— Italian A dead man's will is the mirror of his life.
— Polish A grudge is not held against a dead person.
— African (Zulu) ❖ A dead person has no mouth.
— Japanese A dead man pays no debts.
— Serbo-Croatian A dead man has neither relations nor friends.
— French A dead man does not speak.
— Portuguese A cemetery never refuses a dead man.
— Lebanese ❖ A centipede though dead will not fall.
— Japanese A tiger leaves its skin when dead,
but men live by their fame instead.
— Malaysian A hide that is stretched is a dead one.
— Indian (Hindi) A living dog is better than a dead lion.
— English Alive, we live in the same house or under the same roof.
Dead, we rest in the same tomb.
— Malagasy ❖ All brides are beautiful; all the dead are pious.
— Yiddish As long as the language lives the nation is not dead.
— Czech As the grass cannot grow in the sky, so the dead
cannot look out of the grave into the road.
— African (Yoruba) Better a living dog than a dead lion.
— German Better red than dead.
— American ❖❖❖