If you prune in April you'll fill your barrels not with wine, but with water.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about wine, water, contentment
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Uncollected olives, left at random fill neither the saddle bag nor the little sack.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian
He who refuses a gift will not fill his barn.
Proverbs and old sayings about gifts
A man that has had his fill is no eater.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about man
Fools and the perverse fill the lawyers' purse.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish
A grain does not fill a sieve, but it helps its fellow.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish
If you dont fill a crack, you will build a wall.
Proverbs and old sayings about contentment
If you do not fill up a crack, you will have to build a wall.
Proverbs and old sayings about contentment
If it weren't for my need to fill my belly, I would have gilded my arm.
Proverbs and old sayings Swedish about need
The governor must fill your jars.
Proverbs and old sayings Turkish
One must fill the pitcher while the water is flowing.
Proverbs and old sayings Turkish about water
However little you think of the elephant, you can't say it won't fill a pot.
Proverbs and old sayings Cameroonian about contentment
A bird can roost but on one branch, a mouse can drink not more than its fill from a river.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about drinking
A bird cannot roost but on one branch. a mouse can drink no more than its fill from a river.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about drinking
Life itself cannot give you joy/ Unless you really will it. / Life just gives you time and space -- It's up to you to fill it.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about univers, life, joy, contentment, time
When you are an anvil, hold you still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill.
Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about contentment
The summer that yields lots of pumpkins and horse radish doesn't fill the larder.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian
If the olive trees blossom in April, you'll have enough to collect them with barrels; if they bud in May, you'll have enough to fill a small measure; but if as late as June, you'll only be collecting handfuls.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about measure, contentment
