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When a child knows how to wash his hands well, he eats with the elders.

Proverbs and old sayings about children

One eats, another watches; that's how revolutions are born.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish

One eats while another watches -- that is how revolutions are begun.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish

Who eats it won't know the bitterness of the onion, but who chops it does.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish

The cat--moon eats the gray mice of night.

Proverbs and old sayings about moon, night

One who eats the remains of a meal without first obtaining permission.

Proverbs and old sayings Zulu about permission

He who eats well is able to face an army.

Proverbs and old sayings Yemenite about face

When a poor man eats a chicken, one or the other is sick.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about man

He who eats well speaks well or it is a question of insanity.

Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian about question

When the man is away, the monkey eats his corn and goes into his hut.

Proverbs and old sayings Zulu about man

If a man looks upon your wife pluck out his eye and cook it in a goodly stew. If he eats the stew his manhood will wither and fall off in the next moon.

Proverbs and old sayings Gypsy about gypsies, moon, fall, wife, man

Wise men talk about ideas, intellectuals about facts, and the ordinary man talks about what he eats.

Proverbs and old sayings Mongolian about man

The one who burns his mouth for drinking milk too hot, eats even yogurt carefully.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish about drinking