Search in folklore: sour

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After the sour comes the sweet.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

Handsome apples are sometimes sour.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

Good looking apples are sometimes sour.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about good, good luck

A house full of daughters is a cellar full of sour beer.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about home, house

The grapes are sour, said the fox, when he could not get at them.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

Drunk sweetly, paid sourly.

Proverbs and old sayings German

Sweet wine makes sour vinegar.

Proverbs and old sayings German about wine

Whoever has bitten a sour apple will enjoy a sweet one all the more.

Proverbs and old sayings German

Who has tasted a sour apple, will have the more relish for a sweet one.

Proverbs and old sayings German

The grape is sour.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

Hills far away are green but they often have sour bottoms.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

Sweet meat requires sour sauce.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

The fox said the grapes were sour.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

Life is the source of all things.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about life, things

A man with a sour face should not open a shop.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about face, man

Thunder is not the source of the rain.

Proverbs and old sayings about rain

From a pure source pure water comes.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about water

Learning has sour roots, but pleasant fruits.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

Union is source of success.

Proverbs and old sayings Mongolian about union

Envy for a friend is like the taste of a sour pumpkin.

Proverbs and old sayings Peruvian about envy