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We should not burn the light in both ends.

Proverbs and old sayings Swedish about end, light

Who is in front everywhere often gets a nose-burn.

Proverbs and old sayings Swedish

Before the nut is cooked, a sesame is burnt.

Proverbs and old sayings Thai

When a king is about to lose his power his orders burn more intensely than fire.

Proverbs and old sayings Tibetan about power, fire, fire brigade

If you play with fire you get burned.

Proverbs and old sayings about fire, fire brigade

An ember burns where it falls.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish

Near the dry, the damp will burn.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish

We will burn a blanket to kill a flea.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish

A liar's candle will burn until bed-time.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish about time

The liar's house burned, but nobody believed it.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish about home, house

Who burned himself with hot milk blows on ice cream.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish

The forest should be burned when a sapling grows wrongly.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish

Who has never been burned in the sun won't know the value of shadow.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish about value, shadow, sun

March makes one look through the door, and makes one burn hoes and shovels.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish

The one who burns his mouth for drinking milk too hot, eats even yogurt carefully.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish about drinking

You can burn down a house, but can you hide the smoke?

Proverbs and old sayings Ugandan about smoke, home, house

A brand burns him who stirs it up.

Proverbs and old sayings Zulu

He avenged himself on fleas, and burned up his bed.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish

If envy would burn, there would be no need for wood.

Proverbs and old sayings Yugoslavian about envy, need

He is not honest who has burned his tongue and does not tell the company the soup is hot.

Proverbs and old sayings Yugoslavian about companies