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Many children, and little bread, is a painful pleasure.

Proverbs and old sayings German about pleasure, children

He who cries today that he has no bread will cry again tomorrow because he isn't hungry.

Proverbs and old sayings German

If you find no fish, you have to eat bread.

Proverbs and old sayings Ghanaian about fishing, contentment

One knows even when one neighbor's bread is in the oven.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan

A priest blesses his own bread first.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek

When do we have a day of fast? When there is no bread and ham in the larder.

Proverbs and old sayings Gypsy about gypsies, fasting, day

Buttered bread always falls dry side up.

Proverbs and old sayings

A quotation at the right moment is like bread to the hungry.

Proverbs and old sayings about moment, rightness

Men were born with bread in their hands women were born with empty hands.

Proverbs and old sayings about man

The developments have led to the breaking if bread.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

Better dry bread in peacetime than meat in wartime.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

If a stone was thrown at you, throw back some bread in return.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian about contentment

If you travel for a day, take bread for a week.

Proverbs and old sayings Icelandic about day, contentment

Never buy bread from a butcher.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about commerce

Better April showers than the breadth of the ocean in gold.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

Everything revolves around bread and death.

Proverbs and old sayings about death

Others' bread is too salt.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

Eaten bread is soon forgotten.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

Others' bread has seven crusts.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

Even the dog gets bread by wagging his tail.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian