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The starving man will never burn his bread.

Proverbs and old sayings Croatian about man

Check before you bite if it is bread or a stone.

Proverbs and old sayings Croatian about contentment

The God who gave us teeth will also give us bread.

Proverbs and old sayings Czech about god

Who goes for a day in the forest should take bread for a week.

Proverbs and old sayings Czech about day

He who cannot cut the bread evenly cannot get on well with people.

Proverbs and old sayings Czech about people

Even crumbs are bread.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

Philosophy bakes no bread.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about philosophy

Art and knowledge bring bread and honour.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about art, magic, honour, knowledge

It is well to have clean bread in one's wallet.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

A threatened man lives long, if he can get bread.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about man

Don't praise the bread that is not out of the oven.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about praise

It is hard to pay for bread that has already been eaten.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

Barren corn makes bitter bread.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about bitter

Long fasting doesn't save bread.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about fasting

Long fasting is no bread sparing.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about fasting

If fools ate no bread, corn would be cheap.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

For a good appetite there is no hard bread.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about good, good luck

Eat bread that's light, and cheese by weight.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about light

The death of one person means bread for another.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about death, people

A young wife, new bread, and green wood devastate a house.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about wife, home, house