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Cultures are born and die, but the cheese is immortal.

Proverbs and old sayings Icelandic about immortality

Don't let the peasant know how good the cheese with the pears is.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about peasantry, good, good luck

When a dog has money, he buys cheese.

Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican about money

I don't want the cheese, I just want to get out of the trap.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

If everybody said bread and cheese, you put your head down and die.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about heads

Ye never saw green cheese but your e'en reei'd.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

He would gar you trow that the mune's made o' green cheese.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

Bread and cheese is gude to eat when folk can get nae ither meat.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

I would as soon see your nose be cheese, and the cat get the first bite of it.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

Bread and cheese, neither beneficial nor bad.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about bad luck, bad

Choose bread with eyes, cheese without eyes and wine that makes your eyes pop.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about eyes, wine

It's not polite to eat just the center of the cheese and just the crust of the bread.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

Pound the garlic, Pedro, whilst I grate the cheese.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

Women, melons, and cheese are bought by the weight.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

I don't want the cheese; I just want out of the trap.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

An apple-pie without some cheese is like a kiss without a squeeze.

Proverbs and old sayings about kiss

With talking the cheese ship won't move.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish about talking

The cheese vessel will not sail merely by words.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish

You can't make cheesecakes out of snow.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish

One person enjoys a piece of hard cheese, a second a spun out prayer chant, and a third a door to the street.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about people
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