Better to drink the milk than to eat the cow.
Proverbs and old sayings Icelandic about drinking
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When you drink milk under the palm tree, people will say that it is palm wine.
Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about drinking, wine, people, contentment
Good as drink is, it ends in thirst.
Proverbs and old sayings Irish about end, drinking, good, good luck
When the drink is in, the sense is out.
Proverbs and old sayings Irish about common sense, sense, drinking
Women do not drink liquor but it disappears when they are present.
Proverbs and old sayings Irish about present, drinking
She would drink the cream and say the cat she had was an old rogue.
Proverbs and old sayings Irish about drinking, old, olderness
Drink is the curse of the land. It makes you fight with your neighbor. It makes you shoot at your landlord and it makes you miss him.
Proverbs and old sayings Irish about fight, drinking, contentment
God save me from one who does not drink.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about drinking, god
Drink wine and let water go to the mill.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about drinking, wine, water
He would slaughter a bug to drink its blood.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about blood, drinking
The donkey won't drink if he can't see water.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about drinking, water
One cannot drink and whistle at the same time.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about drinking, time
Give the priest drink, for the clerk is thirsty.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about drinking
Drink water like an ox, wine like the king of Spain.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about drinking, wine, water
You cannot make the mule drink when he is not thirsty.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about drinking, contentment
There's no making the ass drink when his is not thirsty.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about drinking
Eat and drink with your relatives, but do business with strangers.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about affair, drinking
There is no use in saying, I will not go such a way, nor drink of such a water.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about use, drinking, water
Mi come here fi drink milk, mi noh come here fi count cow.
Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican about drinking
If you saw what the river carried, you would never drink the water.
Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican about drinking, water, contentment
