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God sends meat, but the Devil sends cooks.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about devil, god

You cannot cook your eggs with wind.

Proverbs and old sayings Lebanese

The earth is a giant cooking pot and men are the meat therein.

Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about earth, man

Before one cooks, one must have the meat.

Proverbs and old sayings

A pot that build attracts the cook.

Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian

A family name is not cooked and eaten, one's life is the thing.

Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian about family, name, things, life

When there are two cooks, the soup becomes either salty or saltless.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian

If there are two cooks in one house, the soup is either too salty or too cold.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about home, house

Where six cooks are, there is nothing to eat.

Proverbs and old sayings Polish about nothing

Even if a chef cooks just a fly, he would keep the breast for himself.

Proverbs and old sayings Polish

Cabbage twice cooked is death.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about death

First catch your hare, then cook him.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian

God sends meat and the devil sends cooks.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about devil, god

Eat what is cooked, listen to what is said.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian

All are not cooks who walk with long knives.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian

All are not cooks that walk with long knives.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian

As you cooked the porridge, so must you eat it.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian

You can’t cook one half of a chicken and expect the other half to lay eggs.

Proverbs and old sayings Sanskrit

Out of all cookery, the coffee laced with schnapps is the best.

Proverbs and old sayings

An ill Cook would have a good Cleaver.

Proverbs and old sayings about good, good luck