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One can't spoil porridge with butter.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian

Mony a gude tale is spoilt in the telling.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about fairy tales

Many a good tale is spoiled in the telling.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about fairy tales, good, good luck

Hens feet don't spoil the chick.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

Too much spoils and too little is not enough.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

January's goat meat is so good it even spoils the goatherd.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about good, good luck

Once you've used enough seasoning; using more will spoil the dish.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

The rotten apple spoils its companion.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

Don't spoil the ship for a halfpenny-worth of tar.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

The mother who spoils her child, fattens a serpent.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about children, mother

A rotten coconut in a heap spoils the wholesome ones.

Proverbs and old sayings

Don't spoil a cool place under the hospitable tree.

Proverbs and old sayings Thai

Too much zeal spoils everything.

Proverbs and old sayings

Don't spoil the ship for a ha'porth of tar.

Proverbs and old sayings

One rotten apple spoils the other.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish

What a fool can spoil, ten wise men cannot repair.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about man

It's good to hope, it's the waiting that spoils it.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about hope, good, good luck

A poem ought to be well made at first, for there is many a one to spoil it afterwards.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish