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Better bide the Cooks nor the Mediciners.

Proverbs and old sayings

Ilk a man as he loves, let him send to the Cooks.

Proverbs and old sayings about man

He is a fairy Cook, that may not lick his own fingers.

Proverbs and old sayings about fairy tales

Mony cooks ne'er made good kail.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about good, good luck

Better wait on the cook than the doctor.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

A cold needs the cook as much as the doctor.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

A lobster loves water, but not when he's being cooked in it.

Proverbs and old sayings about being, water

The cook does not have to be a beautiful woman.

Proverbs and old sayings about woman

A good fire gives the cook latitude.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about fire, fire brigade, good, good luck

God gives cookies to those without teeth.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about god

Asparagus and mushrooms teach a cook humility.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about humility

The mature fruit is cooked in August and dished out in September.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

The fish was so fresh that it was being cooked while its tail was still in the sea.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about being

The best cook drops a whole tomato.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

The stew mixed by many is ill-seasoned and worse cooked.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

He who asks for salt does so for his own cooking pot.

Proverbs and old sayings

Rice is all one but they are many ways of cooking it.

Proverbs and old sayings

The brotherhood of coconuts is a meeting in the cook-in pot.

Proverbs and old sayings about brotherhood

Before the nut is cooked, a sesame is burnt.

Proverbs and old sayings Thai

Hunger is a good cook.

Proverbs and old sayings about hunger, good, good luck