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Cotton cannot play with fire.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish about fire, fire brigade

Who gives the money will play the flute.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish about money

When it sees money, the flute will play itself.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish about money

You play with a snake and call it a worm.

Proverbs and old sayings Yemenite about contentment

In life, each of us must sometimes play the fool.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about life

If you play with a cat, you must not mind her scratch.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about mind, contentment

When you play the flute in Zanzibar all Africa dances.

Proverbs and old sayings Zulu about contentment

The problem with the palace attendant isn't how to steal the king's drums but where to play them from.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

You lose some... and you win some... and some you don't even bother to play.

Proverbs and old sayings English about contentment

Eat leeks in march, garlic in may, all the rest of the year the doctors may play.

Proverbs and old sayings English about rest

With someone holding nothing but trumps it is impossible to play cards.

Proverbs and old sayings German about impossible, nothing

You may crush, bleed, stamp on and scratch me, but I won't play with fire.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about fire, fire brigade, contentment

First harvest honey and wax during the day, then dance and play in the open during the evening.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about dance, day