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Where there is no honey, we have to make do with treacle.

Proverbs and old sayings

Even if your bee-hive has no honey in it, you shouldn't break it up.

Proverbs and old sayings Bantu about contentment

The bee, from her industry in the summer, eats honey all the winter.

Proverbs and old sayings Belgian

When the sea turned to honey, the poor man lost his spoon.

Proverbs and old sayings Bulgarian about man

When the sea turned into honey, the poor man lost his spoon.

Proverbs and old sayings Bulgarian about man

A honeyed mouth hides a daggered heart.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about heart

One bee makes no honey; one grain makes no rice soup.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

Beware of one with a honeyed tongue and a sword in the belly.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

Treachery lurks in honeyed words.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about word

He who would steal honey, must not be afraid of bees.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

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

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

Let a dog get at a dish of honey, and he will jump in with both legs.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

More flies are caught with a drop of honey than with a barrel of vinegar.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

A honey tongue, a heart of gall.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about heart

He buys honey dear who has to lick it off thorns.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

Where the bee sucks honey the spider sucks poison.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

He who makes himself honey will be eaten by the bees.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

He who would gather honey must brave the sting of bees.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

The cost is high of the honey that must be licked from thorns.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

He that hath no honey in his pot, let him have it in his mouth.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch