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Flour Proverbs
I poured our own flour and hung our hair-sieve.
Persian Proverb
The flour tastes bitter to the mouse who has had enough.
Slovak Proverb
If I peddle salt, it rains; if I peddle flour, the wind blows.
Japanese Proverb
He that would stop everybody's mouth needs plenty of flour.
German Proverb
It is bad baking without flour and water.
German Proverb
If you don't want flour on your shoes, don't go into the mill.
Irish Proverb
If you don't want flour, do not get into the mill.
Irish Proverb
There will be no bread from that flour.
Polish Proverb
The dog that licks ashes is not to be trusted with flour.
Italian Proverb
I have sifted my flour and hung up the sieve.
Arabic Proverb
You must contrive to bake with the flour you have.
Danish Proverb
Make good flour and you need no trumpet.
Portuguese Proverb
When the mouse is full, the flour tastes bitter.
Faroese Proverb
He who has nothing will not eat. If you want flour, go gather chestnuts.
Corsican Proverb
Rats plotting: problems with flour.
Corsican Proverb
You never get clean flour from a coal sack.
French Proverb
You easily lend bread to the one who has flour.
French Proverb
When God sends flour the devil carries off the sack.
French Proverb
If the sieve is not shaken, his flour will not drop from it.
Sumerian Proverb
When the mouse is full, the flour tastes bitter.
Swedish Proverb
While you still have light, grind the flour.
Sumerian Proverb