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A child doesn't breast-feed from a stepmother if its mother is still alive.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about children, mother

When a lion cannot find the flesh to feed on, it has no choice but to eat the grass.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

He that wills not to feed a cat feeds the mice.

Proverbs and old sayings Bulgarian

The crow pecks at the ox to clean it -- not to feed from it.

Proverbs and old sayings Bulgarian

An able horse will never come back to feed in the same stable.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

To feed the ambition in your heart is like carrying a tiger under your arm.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about ambition, heart

There is no need to feed the dog that follows.

Proverbs and old sayings about need

When the feed box is empty, the horses bite each other.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

He who can sit upon a stone and feed himself should not move.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

Beggars breed and rich men feed.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about wealth, man

A man overboard, a mouth less to feed.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about man

I have a mouth which I feed, it must speak what I please.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

Starve a fever, feed a cold.

Proverbs and old sayings English

Old praise dies unless you feed it.

Proverbs and old sayings English about praise, old, olderness, contentment

If thou hast not a capon, feed on an onion.

Proverbs and old sayings English

Slop your hogs before you feed your children.

Proverbs and old sayings English about children, contentment

The cat who snoops around will feed his kitten.

Proverbs and old sayings Estonian

A fine cage won't feed the bird.

Proverbs and old sayings French

The morning of the race is not the morning to feed your horse.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

Fine words don't feed cats.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about word