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Good as drink is, it ends in thirst.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about end, drinking, good, good luck

When the drink is in, the sense is out.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about common sense, sense, drinking

Women do not drink liquor but it disappears when they are present.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about present, drinking

She would drink the cream and say the cat she had was an old rogue.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about drinking, old, olderness

God save me from one who does not drink.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about drinking, god

He would slaughter a bug to drink its blood.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about blood, drinking

The donkey won't drink if he can't see water.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about drinking, water

One cannot drink and whistle at the same time.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about drinking, time

Give the priest drink, for the clerk is thirsty.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about drinking

You cannot make the mule drink when he is not thirsty.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about drinking

There's no making the ass drink when his is not thirsty.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about drinking

Eat and drink with your relatives, but do business with strangers.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about affair, drinking

Mi come here fi drink milk, mi noh come here fi count cow.

Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican about drinking

If you saw what the river carried, you would never drink the water.

Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican about drinking, water

Although dying of thirst, i drink not the water of a stolen fountain.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about drinking, water

The cow drinks water and it turns to milk; the snake drinks water and it turns to poison.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about water

Those who get to the river early drink the cleanest water.

Proverbs and old sayings Kenyan about drinking, water

The elders drink afterwards.

Proverbs and old sayings about drinking

Stop talking. Drink.

Proverbs and old sayings about talking, drinking

Eat and drink with your friends but do not trade with them.

Proverbs and old sayings about commerce, drinking