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If you can't give any sugar then speak sweetly.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about contentment

Don't poison someone whom you can kill with sweets.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about contentment

Be like a camel -- carrying sweets but dining on thorns.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian

When a durian tree is already ripe and sweet, many of the durians will fall to the ground.

Proverbs and old sayings about fall

Drawn wells have sweetest water.

Proverbs and old sayings about water

A silent mouth is sweet to hear.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

The wine is sweet, the paying bitter.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about bitter, wine

The old pipe gives the sweetest smoke.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about smoke, old, olderness

The older the fiddle the sweeter the tune.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

Though honey is sweet, do not lick it off a briar.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

When the fruit is scarcest, its taste is sweetest.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

Better the coldness of a friend than the sweetness of an enemy.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about enemies

A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about wife, mother, man

Forbidden fruit is sweetest.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

Hunger makes hard beans sweet.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about hunger

Strong is the vinegar of sweet wine.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about wine

Beware of the vinegar of sweet wine.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about wine

Beware of vinegar made of sweet wine.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about wine

It is not every flower that smells sweet.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about garden

Knowledge has bitter roots but sweet fruits.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about bitter, knowledge