God sends us meat, the devil sends us cooks.
Proverbs and old sayings about devil, god
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You don't have to know much to read, but you do to cook.
Proverbs and old sayings Turkish
If your guest becomes a cook, your larder will soon be empty.
Proverbs and old sayings Turkish
No cook ever died of starvation.
Proverbs and old sayings Ukrainian
Hunger finds no fault with cookery.
Proverbs and old sayings Vietnamese about hunger
Where God cooks, there is no smoke.
Proverbs and old sayings about smoke, god
If you have no teeth, do not break the clay cooking pot.
Proverbs and old sayings
If you sit with us, you will get like us; if you sit beside a cooking pot, you will get black.
Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about magic
He who has not traveled widely thinks that his mother is the best cook.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about mother
He who never moves about appreciates only one's mother's cookery skills.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about mother
The water in your well can be very hot, but it will never cook your rice.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about water
Removing a peace of yam from the pot of yam doesn't stop the rest from cooking.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about peace
In every family where there is a son, the head of an ox, goat or ram is cooked to be eaten by him with his friends.
Proverbs and old sayings about family, heads
If you stab out the eye of thy neighbor cut off two finger and dip them in honey. Cook them in lemon curd and present them to his family in a pigeon pie. If they dine on a full moon his eye will sprout again from it's socket.
Proverbs and old sayings Gypsy about present, gypsies, family, moon
Whatever the type of firewood found in a place, it is usually good enough for the people of that place to cook with.
Proverbs and old sayings Igbo about people, good, good luck
A person who arrives at a feast when the cooked meat is being pulled out of the pot does not know what was endured by others to catch and cook it.
Proverbs and old sayings Igbo about feast, being, people
God sends us the meat, but it is the Devil who sends us cooks.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about devil, god
The person who has not traveled thinks his or her mother is the best cook.
Proverbs and old sayings about mother, people
He who has not traveled thinks that his mother is the best cook in the world.
Proverbs and old sayings Ugandan about world, mother
One who keeps saying 'I will listen and obey' will be cooked with the corn cob.
Proverbs and old sayings Ugandan
