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Every white hath its black, and every sweet its sour.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about magic

Love is sweet in the beginning but sour in the ending.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about beginning, love

He deserves not the sweet that will not taste the sour.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian

The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about children

Better saut than sour.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

As the sow fills the draff sours.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

Songs learnt from outside sources are not used at a dance so long.

Proverbs and old sayings about dance

Work is the source of all good.

Proverbs and old sayings Thai about work, good, good luck

When drinking water, think about the source.

Proverbs and old sayings Tibetan about drinking, water

Vinegar that is too sour even taints the glass it's kept in.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish

Every stream has its source.

Proverbs and old sayings Zulu

Every course of water has its source.

Proverbs and old sayings Zulu about water

Night of the Saint Andrew

On the 30th of November, Romaian people is celebrating Saint Andrew, the spiritual patriarch of Romania.

The night before Saint Andrew's Eve is known as the night of the ghosts( strigoi), strigoi means in Romanian...

Traditions and superstitions Romanian

He who doesn't clean his mouth before breakfast always complains that the food is sour.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about food

The words of the elderly are as sweet as honey, but if you do not listen they become as sour as bile.

Proverbs and old sayings

A quarrel is like buttermilk, the more you stir it, the more sour it grows.

Proverbs and old sayings Bolivian

An altercation is like buttermilk -- the more you stir it, the sourer it gets.

Proverbs and old sayings Bolivian

No melon-peddler cries: Bitter melons! No wine-dealer says: Sour wine!

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about wine, bitter

When someone gives you a drop of water reward him with a never ending source.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about reward, water

To forget one's ancestor's is to be a brook without a source, a tree without root.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about ancestors