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What can you do with a good cow that gives a lot of milk and then kicks the bucket over?

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about good, good luck

Strength is like milk - it is inexhaustible.

Proverbs and old sayings

If you give a mouse a cookie, he'll always ask for a glass of milk

Proverbs and old sayings British about old, olderness

It is too much to expect of a cat that she should sit by the milk and not lap it.

Proverbs and old sayings German

Two farmers each claimed to own a certain cow. While one pulled on its head and the other pulled on its tail, the cow was milked by the lawyer.

Proverbs and old sayings about heads

He whose mouth was once burned by hot mush, blows even at sour milk.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

The world is like a goat's udder. It does not yile any milk, unless you punch and squeeze at it.

Proverbs and old sayings Igbo about world

Our neighbour's crop is always more fruitful and his cattle produce more milk than our own.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

Give a servant a proper meal and the cow will give more milk and the cat will drink less.

Proverbs and old sayings Swedish about drinking

When a fool has the cow by the horns, the wise man can milk it.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about man