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Sour Proverbs
Hills far away are green but they often have sour bottoms.
Irish Proverb
A man with a sour face should not open a shop.
Japanese Proverb
No one says his own buttermilk is sour.
Afghan Proverb
He who doesn't clean his mouth before breakfast always complains that the food is sour.
African Proverb
No one says, ‘my yogurt is sour.'
Arabic Proverb
Who has tasted a sour apple, will have the more relish for a sweet one.
German Proverb
Whoever has bitten a sour apple will enjoy the sweet one all the more.
German Proverb
The fox said the grapes were sour.
Italian Proverb
Sweet meat requires sour sauce.
Italian Proverb
After the sour comes the sweet.
Dutch Proverb
Handsome apples are sometimes sour.
Dutch Proverb
Envy for a friend is like the taste of a sour pumpkin.
Peruvian Proverb
Sweet and sour walk hand in hand.
Efik Proverb
Sweet and sour walk hand in hand.
African Proverb
If patience is sour then its result is sweet.
Arabic Proverb
The words of the elderly are as sweet as honey, but if you do not listen they become as sour as bile.
Arabic Proverb
The laggard cow gets the sour grass.
Danish Proverb
Sweet wine makes sour vinegar.
German Proverb
Sweet is the wine but sour is the payment.
Irish Proverb
He whose mouth was once burned by hot mush, blows even at sour milk.
Hungarian Proverb
Every white hath its black, and every sweet its sour.
Romanian Proverb
He deserves not the sweet that will not taste the sour.
Romanian Proverb
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