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Do not yell "dinner” until your knife is in the loaf.
Canadian Proverb
Heed the troubadour, burn the dinner.
Afghan Proverb
When a cock invites a cockroach for a birthday party, he has prepared dinner for himself.
African Proverb
Enjoy breakfast all alone, share lunch with your best friend and give dinner to your enemy.
African Proverb
After dinner sit a while, after supper walk a mile.
English Proverb
After dinner, rest; after supper walk a mile.
Arabic Proverb
After lunch, rest; after dinner take a walk.
Arabic Proverb
Eat beans for lunch and have no friends at the dinner table.
Greek Proverb
Seven sets of ewers, but no dinner nor lunch.
Persian Proverb
Hope is a great breakfast but a poor dinner.
Czech Proverb
After dinner a kuru kills a man or kidnaps a woman.
Kurdish Proverb
A friend's dinner is soon dressed.
Dutch Proverb
To go as fast as a friar that is invited to dinner.
French Proverb
It's nice to have a spoon in time for dinner.
Russian Proverb
He that feeds upon charity has a cold dinner and no supper.
Turkish Proverb
If you have a loitering servant, set his dinner before him and send him on an errand.
Spanish Proverb
Pride is no substitute for a dinner.
Ethiopian Proverb
When flatterers meet, the devil goes to dinner.
English Proverb
Who has wine for dinner, he has water for breakfast.
Serbo Croatian Proverb
Never ask a favor of someone till they have had their dinner.
Traditional Proverb
When traveling do not calculate the distance, at dinner don't think of how much.
Chinese Proverb
Better a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
Chinese Proverb
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