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Coffee from the top of the cup and chocolate from the bottom.
Cuban Proverb
At the first cup man drinks wine, at the second wine drinks wine, at the third wine drinks man.
Japanese Proverb
A tea cup on the edge of a well.
Japanese Proverb
The devil was good looking at eighteen, and course tea makes a bitter first cup.
Japanese Proverb
How can you put out a fire set on a cart-load of firewood with only a cup of water.
Chinese Proverb
There's many a slip twixt cup and lip.
English Proverb
A full cup must be carried steadily.
English Proverb
The last drop makes the cup run over.
English Proverb
Poison is poison though it comes in a golden cup.
English Proverb
A cup must be bitter that a smile will not sweeten.
Maltese Proverb
Full cup, steady hand.
Dutch Proverb
Better than a banquet somewhere else is a good cup of tea and a bowl of rice at home.
Japanese Proverb
Mistaking the reflection of a bow in a cup for a snake.
Chinese Proverb
It is easier to carry an empty cup than one that is filled to the brim.
African Proverb
There is many a slip ‘twixt cup and lip.
American Proverb
Life is not a cup to be drained, but a measure to be filled.
American Proverb
When the cup is full, carry it even.
Scottish Proverb
Quhen the cup is fullest, bear it evenest.
Scottish Proverb
Noh cup noh brok, noh coffee noh trow weh.
Jamaican Proverb
When the cup is fullest it is most difficult to carry.
Scottish Gaelic Proverb
You drink out of the old cup.
Xhosa Proverb
Twixt the cup and the lip there's many a slip.
French Proverb
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