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Don't be too sweet lest you be eaten up; don't be too bitter lest you be spewed out.
Jewish Proverb
If not for fear, sin would be sweet.
Jewish Proverb
Soft fire makes sweet malt.
English Proverb
Flies know well the sweet seller's beard.
Lebanese Proverb
The patient thief is as a tree whose root runs deep as he waits for the sweet fruit..
Gypsy Proverb
When the monkey can't reach the ripe banana with his hand, he says it is not sweet.
Sudanese Proverb
Patience is a tree whose root is bitter, but its fruit is very sweet.
Canadian Proverb
A silent mouth is sweet to hear.
Irish Proverb
Brackish water is sweet in a drought.
Portuguese Proverb
Beware of the vinegar of sweet wine.
Italian Proverb
Knowledge has bitter roots but sweet fruits.
Italian Proverb
Eating much of sweetness you do not know if it be sweet anymore.
Tibetan Proverb
Sweet tongues buy horses on credit.
Hawaiian Proverb
Sugarcane is always sweet people only sometimes so.
Myanmar Proverb
Money is sweet balm.
Egyptian Proverb
Man is like palm-wine: when young, sweet but without strength; in old age, strong but harsh.
African Congo Proverb
Truth is like sugar cane; even if you chew it for a long time, it is still sweet.
Madagascan Proverb
Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bone.
Moroccan Proverb
Sweet rice is eaten quickly.
Sierra Leonean Proverb
The pot-lid is always badly off: the pot gets all the sweet, the lid nothing but steam.
Yoruba Proverb
A hasty person misses the sweet things.
Swahili Proverb
Mouth will not be sweet if you say halva.
Azerbaijani Proverb
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