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He sups ill who eats up all at dinner.

Proverbs and old sayings French

It is a hard winter when one wolf eats another.

Proverbs and old sayings French

He who eats the king's cow lean, pays for it fat.

Proverbs and old sayings French

The fox thinks everybody eats poultry like himself.

Proverbs and old sayings French

He who eats of the king's goose will void a feather forty years after.

Proverbs and old sayings French

The cow that does not eat with the oxen, either eats before or after them.

Proverbs and old sayings

As a man eats, so he works.

Proverbs and old sayings German about man

For love the wolf eats the sheep.

Proverbs and old sayings German about love

Envy eats nothing but its own heart.

Proverbs and old sayings German about envy, heart, nothing

One catches the hare, another eats it.

Proverbs and old sayings German

In times of emergency the devil eats flies.

Proverbs and old sayings German about devil

The ass loaded with gold still eats thistles.

Proverbs and old sayings German

The ass bedecked with gold still eats thistles.

Proverbs and old sayings German

The pope eats peasants, gulps gentlemen, and voids monks.

Proverbs and old sayings German

The grasshopper which is always near its mother eats the best food.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about food, mother

He who eats and drinks with the rich leaves the table hungry.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek about wealth

He that eats till he is sick must fast till he is well.

Proverbs and old sayings about fasting

The big fish eats the little fish.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

Dog eats excreta, but goat gets rotten teeth.

Proverbs and old sayings Igbo

He who works as a slave, eats as a king.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian