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Great gaps may be filled with small stones.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

It is a bad well that you have to fill with water.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about bad luck, water, bad

Covetousness is always filling a bottomless vessel.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

When the mouse has had its fill, the meal turns bitter.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about bitter

Covetousness is never satisfied till its mouth is filled with earth.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about earth

Evil words fill some with astonishment.

Proverbs and old sayings Egyptian

A cold April the barn will fill.

Proverbs and old sayings English

Grain by grain the hen fills her belly.

Proverbs and old sayings English

He that blows in the dust fills his eyes with it.

Proverbs and old sayings English about eyes

Beauty does not fill your tummy.

Proverbs and old sayings Estonian about beauty

Drop by drop fills the tub.

Proverbs and old sayings French

Wishes never filled the bag.

Proverbs and old sayings French

Promises don't fill the belly.

Proverbs and old sayings German

Fair words don't fill the pocket.

Proverbs and old sayings German

The stomach is easier filled than the eye.

Proverbs and old sayings German

Where God bestows an office, he provides brains to fill it.

Proverbs and old sayings German about god

It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek about value, hunger, food, good, good luck

He fills one hole with another.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

The cask savours of the first fill.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

It is better to get fillers often than forints seldom.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian