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The cow drinks water and it turns to milk; the snake drinks water and it turns to poison.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about water

A clever person turns great troubles into little ones and little ones into none at all.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about intelligence, people

A bad penny always turns up

Proverbs and old sayings British about bad luck, bad, old, olderness

If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off your lips.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

The worm turns.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans

A diamond daughter turns to glass as a wife.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about wife, americans

In spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to what the woman has been thinking all winter.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about thinking, spring, woman, americans, man

Thought he was a great catch, turns out he is a shackle.

Proverbs and old sayings about thinking

Many dogs kill a hare, no matter how many turns it makes.

Proverbs and old sayings

A soft answer turns away wrath.

Proverbs and old sayings

Why jump in the water before the ship turns over.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about water

Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about heads, family, woman, man

A curse turns against the one who uttered it.

Proverbs and old sayings

He who has money and friends, turns his nose at justice.

Proverbs and old sayings about justice, money

A curse turns around and strikes the one who uttered it in the face.

Proverbs and old sayings about face

Joy surfeited turns to sorrow.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about joy, sadness

Grief unspoken turns to poison.

Proverbs and old sayings about sadness

When the mouse has had its fill, the meal turns bitter.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about bitter

The tongue ever turns to the aching tooth.

Proverbs and old sayings English

Pride in prosperity turns to misery in adversity.

Proverbs and old sayings English about prosperity, proudness