What grows when it eats, but dies when it drinks?
Fire.
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What grows when it eats, but dies when it drinks?
He who lies by the fireside knows how it burns.
Proverbs and old sayings West African
Chop your own firewood and it will warm you twice.
Proverbs and old sayings West African
One with more firewood than you, has more ash than you.
Proverbs and old sayings West African
Foolhardiness made the rat try to jump over the fireplace.
Proverbs and old sayings West African
He who brings firewood infected with maggots in his house should not complain when lizards start visiting him.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about home, house
If a bachelor who uses firewood for cooking runs away in the morning to avoid removing the ash; he will have to deal with it when he comes back.
Proverbs and old sayings West African
Nobody gathers firewood to roast a thin goat.
Proverbs and old sayings
The cimex lives in the firewood and still it reaches its full growth.
Proverbs and old sayings
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset..
Proverbs and old sayings about shadow, night, life
Remove firewood from under a pot.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese
Far waters cannot quench near fires.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese
Burn one day's gathering of firewood on the same day.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about day
Though you live near a forest, do not waste firewood.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese
By firelight, an old rag looks like sturdy hemp fabric.
Proverbs and old sayings about old, olderness
It is bad to be between two fires.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about bad luck, bad
Crooked logs make straight fires.
Proverbs and old sayings English
What is true by firelight is not always true by daylight.
Proverbs and old sayings French
What the child hears at the fireside is soon known at the parish church.
Proverbs and old sayings French about children
If you don't light fires, smoke won't get in your eyes.
Proverbs and old sayings German about smoke, light, eyes
