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More flies are taken with a drop of honey than a tun of vinegar.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

Oil is best at the beginning, honey at the end, and wine in the middle.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about beginning, wine, end

If your friend is honey, don't lick it all.

Proverbs and old sayings Egyptian

If your friend is like honey, don't lick all of it.

Proverbs and old sayings Egyptian

You can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.

Proverbs and old sayings English about trap, contentment

Make yourself all honey and the flies will devour you.

Proverbs and old sayings English about contentment

Of wine the middle, of oil the top, and of honey the bottom is best.

Proverbs and old sayings English about wine

Every bee's honey is sweet.

Proverbs and old sayings French

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

He pays dear for honey who licks it off thorns.

Proverbs and old sayings French

More flies are caught with honey than with vinegar.

Proverbs and old sayings French

Flies are easier caught with honey than with vinegar.

Proverbs and old sayings French

He that has not money in his purse should have honey in his mouth.

Proverbs and old sayings French about money

He is a very bad manager of honey who leaves nothing to lick off his fingers.

Proverbs and old sayings French about heads, nothing, bad luck, bad

One catches more flies with a spoonful of honey than with twenty casks of vinegar.

Proverbs and old sayings French

It is dear honey that must be licked off thorns.

Proverbs and old sayings German

Words are like bees, they have honey and a sting.

Proverbs and old sayings German about word

What's the use of putting honey in an ass's mouth.

Proverbs and old sayings German about use

He who makes himself honey, will be eaten by the flies.

Proverbs and old sayings German