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From all the fish in the pot you can only make one soup.

Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about fishing, contentment

Fish don't get caught in deep water.

Proverbs and old sayings Guatemalan about fishing, water

Anything with scales counts as a fish.

Proverbs and old sayings Guatemalan about fishing

When you are crossing over a river you might be eaten by crocodiles, but don't let yourself get bitten by the little fish.

Proverbs and old sayings Guatemalan about fishing, contentment

Anything with scales counts as fish.

Proverbs and old sayings Guatemalan about fishing

Dont make sauce before catching fish.

Proverbs and old sayings Maltese about fishing

A cat likes to eat fresh fish but it will not go into the water.

Proverbs and old sayings Mongolian about fishing, water

The fish sees the bait not the hook; a man sees not the danger -- only the profit.

Proverbs and old sayings Mongolian about danger, fishing, man

Better the gurgling of a camel than the prayers of a fish.

Proverbs and old sayings Moroccan about fishing

Strike a match above the sea of opinions and the fish all swim away.

Proverbs and old sayings Moroccan about fishing

A child without a mother is like a fish in shallow water.

Proverbs and old sayings about fishing, children, mother, water

When the fish gets rotten, it all starts from the head.

Proverbs and old sayings about fishing, heads

Only when the last tree has withered, and the last fish caught, and the last river been poisoned, will we realize we cannot eat money.

Proverbs and old sayings about fishing, money, americans

When the last tree has been cut down, the last river has been polluted and the last fish has been caught -- only then do you realize that money can't buy everything.

Proverbs and old sayings about pollution, commerce, fishing, money, americans, contentment

Fish bite best on a golden hook.

Proverbs and old sayings Norwegian about fishing

There is never a fish without a bone, and no man without faults.

Proverbs and old sayings Norwegian about fishing, man

He makes the water muddy to fish.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about fishing, water

There is no need for fish in an empty pond.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about need, fishing

Fish, to taste right, must swim 3 times -- in water, in butter and in wine.

Proverbs and old sayings Polish about rightness, wine, fishing, water

Fish, to taste good, must swim three times in water, in butter, and in wine.

Proverbs and old sayings Polish about wine, fishing, water, good, good luck