Where there is no honey, we have to make do with treacle.
Proverbs and old sayings
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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
