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Promises don't fill the belly.

Proverbs and old sayings German

The eye is bigger than the belly.

Proverbs and old sayings German

Windmills are not driven by bellows.

Proverbs and old sayings German

The belly does not have a conscience.

Proverbs and old sayings German about conscience

There's no putting off a lie upon the belly.

Proverbs and old sayings German about lie

One hair of a woman draws more than a bell-rope.

Proverbs and old sayings German about woman

The higher the bell is hung, the shriller it sounds.

Proverbs and old sayings German

So long as the belly is silent all whores are virgins.

Proverbs and old sayings German

Every one thinks that all the bells echo his own thoughts.

Proverbs and old sayings German

A calf that is sucking does not bellow.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan

A fat belly did not invent gun powder.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek

You cannot reason with a hungry belly; it has no ears.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek about reason

He talks a hole into the belly of somebody.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

Fair words are not enough to an empty belly.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

The congregation is poor, the priest rings the bell himself.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

All you can tell about a big belly is that the owner has had a lot to eat, not what he had to eat.

Proverbs and old sayings Igbo

Big bellies were never generous.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

'My belly thinks my throat is cut, ' as the hungry man said.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about man

The well-filled belly has little understanding of the empty.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

One bell serves a parish.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian