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A full bottle makes no sound; a half-bottle sloshes around.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

With enough ifs we could put Paris into a bottle.

Proverbs and old sayings French

Do not put new wine into old bottles

Proverbs and old sayings British about wine, old, olderness

A drunkard is like a whisky bottle only neck and belly but no head.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about heads

A bottle that believes it's cracked to smile it will end up on the dustbin.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about smile, end

A thousand pounds and a bottle of hay are all one at domesday.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

Pleasure for one hour, a bottle of wine. Pleasure for one year a marriage; but pleasure for a lifetime, a garden.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about pleasure, marriage, garden, wine

Full bottles and glasses make swearers and asses.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

The cork is always bigger than the mouth of the bottle.

Proverbs and old sayings Estonian

Only a fool gets drunk from his own bottle.

Proverbs and old sayings French

A good bottle of wine does not need a cork.

Proverbs and old sayings French about wine, need, good, good luck

It is only the first bottle that is expensive.

Proverbs and old sayings French

They forgive the wine but they hang the bottle.

Proverbs and old sayings French about wine

With enough 'ifs' we could put Paris in a bottle.

Proverbs and old sayings French

With the help of an If you might put Paris into a bottle.

Proverbs and old sayings French about help

He released the spirit from the bottle.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian about spirit

A narrow neck keeps the bottle from being emptied in one swig.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about being

Man no hab gourdy, him satisfy wid bottle.

Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican about man

Walls have ears, bottles have mouths.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese