Search in folklore: porridge

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Save your breath to cool your porridge.

Proverbs and old sayings British

Be careful when you are sharing a calabash of porridge with a toothless man.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about man

As porridge benefits those who heat and eat it, so does a child benefit those that rear it.

Proverbs and old sayings about children

Beautiful words don't put porridge in the pot.

Proverbs and old sayings

When it rains porridge the beggar has no spoon.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

Help is good everywhere, except in the porridge-bowl.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about help, good, good luck

Not all porridge cooked is eaten.

Proverbs and old sayings

Too many cooks oversalt the porridge.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

It is hard to pay for porridge that has been eaten.

Proverbs and old sayings English

Crumb not your bread before you taste your porridge.

Proverbs and old sayings English

Who eats bread with barley porridge will be sent to Siberia.

Proverbs and old sayings Estonian

Marriage is not just a porridge that you spit out if it's too hot.

Proverbs and old sayings about marriage

A lovelorn cook oversalts the porridge.

Proverbs and old sayings German

Poor folks are glad of porridge.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian

One can't spoil porridge with butter.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian

If there is no caviar one eats porridge.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian

As you cooked the porridge, so must you eat it.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian

Walk like the cat around hot porridge.

Proverbs and old sayings Swedish