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Make do with bread and butter until God can bring you jam.

Proverbs and old sayings about god

The butterfly who settles on a branch is afraid that he will break it.

Proverbs and old sayings Armenian

A quarrel is like buttermilk, the more you stir it, the more sour it grows.

Proverbs and old sayings Bolivian

An altercation is like buttermilk -- the more you stir it, the sourer it gets.

Proverbs and old sayings Bolivian

The butterfly becomes only when it's entirely ready.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

If your head is made of butter, don't be a baker.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about heads

It is dear-bought butter that is licked off a woolcomb.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

He who has plenty of butter, may put some in his cabbage.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

It is not easy to know your butter in another man's cabbage.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about man

He must have plenty of butter, who would stop everybody's mouth.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

He fell with his nose in the butter.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

He keeps his word, as the sun keeps butter.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about word, sun

He that hath a head of butter must not come near the oven.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about heads

Never fall out with your bread and butter.

Proverbs and old sayings English about fall

It mars to tie the dog to the butter stamp.

Proverbs and old sayings

I know on which side my bread is buttered.

Proverbs and old sayings French

How easily a hair gets into the butter!

Proverbs and old sayings German

Proverbs are like butterflies, some are caught and some fly away.

Proverbs and old sayings German

He who has butter on his head, should not go to the sun.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian about sun, heads

Soft words butter no turnips.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish