Search in folklore: starve

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Starved lice bite the hardest.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

Starve a fever, feed a cold.

Proverbs and old sayings English

Give a man a fish and he won't starve for a day. Teach a man how to fish and he won't starve for his entire life.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about life, man, day

If you starve for three days, there is no thought that does not invade your imagination.

Proverbs and old sayings Korean about imagination, thinking, day

Feed a cold and starve a fever

Proverbs and old sayings British about old, olderness

Those who have friends in the kitchen don't starve.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

Feed a cold, starve a fever.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans

Honesty is praised and left to starve.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about honesty, americans

It is a little thing to starve to death; it is a serious matter to lose one's virtue.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about virtue, things, death

While the grass grows, the steed starves.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

A sitting crow starves.

Proverbs and old sayings Icelandic

He who is a guest in two houses, starves.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian

A starved town is soon forced to surrender.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about city

A tiger wearing a bell will starve.

Proverbs and old sayings Mongolian

Stuff today and starve tomorrow.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian

While the grass grows, the horse starves.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian

A shock dog is starved and nobody believes it.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

He is a great simpleton who starves himself to feed another.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

Where curiosity is not the purveyor, detraction will soon be starved.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about curiosity

There is plenty of corn in Castile, but he who has none, starves.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese