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One can't spoil porridge with butter.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian

A priest's beard is always soaked in butter.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian

Nae butter will stick to my bread.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

That's for that as butter for fish.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

He has licket the butter aff my bread.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

He kens whilk side his cake is buttered on.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

She looks as if butter would not melt in her mouth.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

Be not a baker if your head is butter.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about heads

Cheese from the ewe, milk from the goat, butter from the cow.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

The butterfly often forgets it was a caterpillar.

Proverbs and old sayings Swedish

Don't butter the skillet before catching the fish.

Proverbs and old sayings

Love is like butter -- it's good with bread.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about love, good, good luck

The butterfly that brushes against thorns will tear its wings.

Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian

It's those ugly caterpillars that turn into beautiful butterflies after seasons.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

There are more ways to kill a dog than by choking him on peanut butter.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans

He is little suited to be a baker, whose head is made of butter.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about heads

When the cook and the steward fall out we hear who stole the butter.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about fall

There are more ways of killing a dog than choking it with butter.

Proverbs and old sayings German

There are many ways of killing a pig other than by choking it with butter.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

There is more friendship in a half pint of whiskey than in a churn of buttermilk.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about friendship