The person with burned fingers asks for tongs.
Proverbs and old sayings about people
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The person who has burned their fingers often asks for tongs.
Proverbs and old sayings about people
If you play with fire you get burned.
Proverbs and old sayings about fire, fire brigade, contentment
The liar's house burned, but nobody believed it.
Proverbs and old sayings Turkish about home, house
Who burned himself with hot milk blows on ice cream.
Proverbs and old sayings Turkish
The forest should be burned when a sapling grows wrongly.
Proverbs and old sayings Turkish
Who has never been burned in the sun won't know the value of shadow.
Proverbs and old sayings Turkish about value, shadow, sun
He avenged himself on fleas, and burned up his bed.
Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish
He is not honest who has burned his tongue and does not tell the company the soup is hot.
Proverbs and old sayings Yugoslavian about companies
Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?
Proverbs and old sayings about clothes, fire, fire brigade, man
A cow gave birth to a fire: she wanted to lick it, but it burned; she wanted to leave it, but she could not because it was her own child.
Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian about children, fire, fire brigade
O what we must suffer for the sake of God's church! said the abbot, when the roast fowl burned his fingers.
Proverbs and old sayings German about suffering, god
A piece of incense may be as large as the knee, but unless burned emits no fragrance.
Proverbs and old sayings Guatemalan
With lightning and with love, the clothes sound, the heart burned.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about clothes, heart, love
