Search in folklore: boil

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Boil the water and the scum will rise to the top.

Proverbs and old sayings Berber about water

Boil not the pap before the child is born.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about children

Boil stones in butter, and you may sip the broth.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about contentment

Do not put your spoon into the pot which does not boil for you.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about contentment

Talkin' 'bout fire doesn't boil the pot.

Proverbs and old sayings about fire, fire brigade, americans

Food you will not eat you do not boil.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about food, contentment

Not everything on the body that swells is a boil.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about body

Money makes the pot boil.

Proverbs and old sayings British about money

Fair words will not make the pot boil.

Proverbs and old sayings British about word

The day is never so holy that the pot refuses to boil.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about day

Little kettles soon boil over.

Proverbs and old sayings Estonian

I know by mine own pot how others boil.

Proverbs and old sayings French

I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverbs and old sayings French

Men's ignorance makes the pot boil for priests.

Proverbs and old sayings French about ignorance, man

Empty pots will never boil over.

Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican

Fair words winna gar the pot boil.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about word

Whether you boil snow or pound it you can have but water of it.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about water, contentment

A boil is fine as long as it's under someone else's arm.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish

You will never know the importance of the buttocks, until they develop a boil.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment

Dont give away anything and then take it back, or the person you gave it to will set a cat boil for you.

Proverbs and old sayings about people, contentment