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A lovelorn cook oversalts the porridge.

Proverbs and old sayings German

All are not cooks who carry long knives.

Proverbs and old sayings German

They are not all cooks who carry long knives.

Proverbs and old sayings German

Hunger is the best cook, but he has nothing to eat.

Proverbs and old sayings German about hunger, nothing

If a man looks upon your wife pluck out his eye and cook it in a goodly stew. If he eats the stew his manhood will wither and fall off in the next moon.

Proverbs and old sayings Gypsy about gypsies, moon, fall, wife, man

A poor man cooks with water.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian about water, man

Soup is not eaten as hot as it is cooked.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

What you have cooked, you should eat as well.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

Many cooks put too much salt in the soup, food.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian about food

He's an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

He who would relish his food must not see it cooked.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about food

There is never enmity between the cook and the butler.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

Where there are too many cooks the soup will be too salty.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

From snow whether cooked or pounded you will get nothing but water.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about nothing, water

(Don’t try to) cook six liters of food in a pot that only holds three liters.

Proverbs and old sayings about food

Rice tastes good when properly cooked, and talking is good when the opportunity is ripe.

Proverbs and old sayings about talking, chance, good, good luck

Rice tastes good when it is cooked properly, and talking is good when it is said at the right time.

Proverbs and old sayings about talking, rightness, good, good luck, time

A person who never travels, believes his mother's cooking is the best in the world.

Proverbs and old sayings about world, mother, people

Two smells of cooking meat break the hyena's legs.

Proverbs and old sayings

Colewort twice cooked.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin