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Ye may drink of the burn, but not bite of the brae.

Proverbs and old sayings about drinking

Better a little fire that warms, nor a meikle that burns.

Proverbs and old sayings about fire, fire brigade

Swear by your burnt shins.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

Thole well is good for burning.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about good, good luck

It does no harm now and then to burn a candle for the devil.

Proverbs and old sayings Serbian about devil

You are not being honest if you burn your tongue and don't tell everyone else that the soup is hot.

Proverbs and old sayings Serbian about being

You don't burn incense at an old crucifix.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about old, olderness

Old wood lights better but burns out quicker.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about old, olderness

When your neighbor burns down, your hurt is near.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

True love burns within the heart, better than flax and straw.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about heart, love

If your buttocks burn, you know you have done wrong.

Proverbs and old sayings about bad

Old love and wood will burn as soon as they get the chance.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about chance, love, americans, old, olderness

The fire well knows whose cloak burns.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about fire, fire brigade

She is good who is close to the fire and does not burn.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about fire, fire brigade, good, good luck

The green burns for the dry, and the righteous pay for sinners.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

He does not a little who burns his house: he frightens the rats, and warms himself.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about home, house

A distant fire does not burn.

Proverbs and old sayings about fire, fire brigade

One fire brand after another keeps fire burning.

Proverbs and old sayings about fire, fire brigade

How can you be burnt by chilies which you have not eaten?.

Proverbs and old sayings

The burnt child shuns the fire.

Proverbs and old sayings Swedish about children, fire, fire brigade