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Where there is sugar, there are bound to be ants.

Proverbs and old sayings Malaysian

Too much sugar is bitter.

Proverbs and old sayings Nepalese about bitter

One sprinkles the most sugar where the tart is burnt.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian

Even a sugar mother-in-law tastes bitter.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about bitter, law, mother

The skin of yesteday's sugarcane is a havest to an ant.

Proverbs and old sayings

Rebuke should have a grain more of salt than of sugar.

Proverbs and old sayings

Work like an ant and you'll eat sugar.

Proverbs and old sayings Yemenite about work

If your heart is bitter, sugar in the mouth won't help.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about bitter, help, heart

If you are bitter at heart, sugar in the mouth will not help you.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about bitter, help, heart

If there's bitterness in the heart, sugar in the mouth won't make life sweeter.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about life, heart

Only when you have eaten a lemon do you appreciate what sugar is.

Proverbs and old sayings Ukrainian

Rebukes ought not to have a grain more of salt than of sugar.

Proverbs and old sayings French

The black man steals just half of very little, but the white man steals the whole sugar plantation.

Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican about magic, man