To pretend to satisfy one's desires with worldly goods is like using straw to put out a fire.Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about fire, fire brigade
That is poor help that helps you from the feather-bed to the straw.Proverbs and old sayings Danish about help
What good is a palace if it's inhabited by owls. Better a straw hut inhabited by humans.Proverbs and old sayings about people, good, good luck
If two neighbors want to fight, they will find a quarrel in a straw.Proverbs and old sayings Irish about fight
Comfortable is he who doesn't have a donkey -- Doesn't know of its straw and barley.Proverbs and old sayings Persian
In a piranha infested river, monkeys drink water using a straw.Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about drinking, water