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Stolen sugar is the sweetest.
Hindi Proverb
What good is giving sugar to the dead?
Hindi Proverb
Where there is sugar, there are mice.
Malawi Proverb
Even sugar itself may spoil a good dish.
Hausa Proverb
Truth is like sugar cane; even if you chew it for a long time, it is still sweet.
Madagascan Proverb
Too much sugar is bitter.
Nepal Proverb
Work like an ant and you'll eat sugar.
Yemeni Proverb
Where there is sugar, there are bound to be ants.
Malay Proverb
Ants die in sugar.
Malay Proverb
A mother-in-law made of sugar, still tastes bitter.
Catalan Proverb
Wherever you find sugar, you'll find ants.
Filipino Proverb
Only when you have eaten a lemon do you appreciate what sugar is.
Ukrainian Proverb
One sprinkles the most sugar where the tart is burned.
Dutch Proverb
Even a sugar mother-in-law tastes bitter.
Spanish Proverb
Rebuke should have a grain more of salt than of sugar.
Traditional Proverb
The sweetness of a kola nut doesn't lie in its sugar content.
African Proverb
Put cream and sugar on a fly and it tastes very much like a black raspberry.
American Proverb
Good qualities never cancel out the bad, just as sugar is no antidote for poison.
Arabic Proverb
Be not all sugar, or the world will swallow you up; be not all wormwood, or the world will spit you out.
Persian Proverb
The black man steals just half of very little, but the white man steals the whole sugar plantation.
Jamaican Proverb
If your heart is bitter, sugar in the mouth won't help.
Yiddish Proverb
If there is bitterness in the heart, sugar in the mouth won't make life sweeter.
Yiddish Proverb
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