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If you want your eggs hatched, sit on them yourself.

Proverbs and old sayings Hatian about contentment

Teach your grandame to suck eggs.

Proverbs and old sayings

Other people's eggs have two yolks.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian about people

A hen that cackles much lays only a few eggs.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

Have faith -- God calls forth life even from eggs.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about faith, life, god

Even black hens lay white eggs.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about magic

Don't bring all your eggs to one market.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about stores

Have not all your eggs in one nest.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

Don't reckon your eggs before they are laid.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

There is no making pancakes without breaking the eggs.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

You cannot cook your eggs with wind.

Proverbs and old sayings Lebanese about kitchen, contentment

Words are like newly hatched eggs: they already have wings.

Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about word

A chicken that hatches a crocodile's eggs is looking for trouble.

Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about problems

Let every bird hatch its own eggs.

Proverbs and old sayings

Broken eggs can never be mended.

Proverbs and old sayings

A fowl does not forget where it lays it eggs.

Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian

If crocodiles eat their own eggs, what would they do to the flesh of a frog?

Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian

If the Sultan demands five eggs, let his soldiers roast a thousand chickens.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian

Don't put all you eggs in one basket.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about contentment

There is reason in the roasting of eggs.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about reason