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Honeyed speech often conceals poison and gall.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

It is difficult to spit honey out of a mouth full of gall.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

A honey tongue, a heart of gall.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about heart

Old chains gall less than new.

Proverbs and old sayings English about old, olderness

A honeyed tongue with a heart of gall.

Proverbs and old sayings French about heart

A little gall spoils a great deal of honey.

Proverbs and old sayings French

A little gall make a great deal of honey bitter.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about bitter

Grieving for misfortunes is adding gall to wormwood.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

From afar he takes the heart, from nearby the gall-bladder.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about heart

Mouth of honey, heart of gall.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about heart

A little gall spoils much honey.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese

Mouth from honey, heart of gall.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about heart

The fly has her spleen and the ant her gall.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian

Everything tastes bitter to him with gall in his mouth.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about bitter

Touch a gall'd Horse on the back and he will fling.

Proverbs and old sayings

A little gall embitters much honey.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

When a man is not used to breeches the seams gall him.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about man

From the same flower the bee extracts honey and the wasp gall.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about garden