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The king's chaff is better than other folk's corn.

Proverbs and old sayings German

If fools were to eat no bread, corn would be cheap.

Proverbs and old sayings German

The ass carries corn to the mill, and gets thistles.

Proverbs and old sayings German

Summer sown corn and women's advice turn out once in every seven years.

Proverbs and old sayings German about advice

No house without a mouse, no barn without corn, no rose without a thorn.

Proverbs and old sayings German about home, house

A little fire burns up a great deal of corn.

Proverbs and old sayings about fire, fire brigade

It is easy to collect ears of corn under, beside a stack.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

Praise the ripe field, not the green corn.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about praise

When Jackass smell corn, 'im gallop.

Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican

A king's chaff is worth more than other men's corn.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about man

You think you are strong like the corn plant, yet the bean vine is already choking you.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

See a sheaf of corn in the morning and a young woman in the evening.

Proverbs and old sayings Maltese about woman

The fewer the donkeys, the more ears of corn.

Proverbs and old sayings Mexican

The farmer grows the corn, but the bear eats it.

Proverbs and old sayings Nepalese

You cannot roast corn with two eyes.

Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian about eyes, contentment

Much straw and little corn.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese

The ass dead, the corn at his tail.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese

A barley corn is better than a diamond to a cock.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese

There is plenty of corn in Castile, but he who has none, starves.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese

In much corn is some cockle.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian