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Lid Proverbs
To get the lid on the nose.
Dutch Proverb
It's better to be the pot than the lid.
Colombian Proverb
The pot-lid is always badly off: the pot gets all the sweet, the lid nothing but steam.
Yoruba Proverb
If there is a lid that doesn't fit, then there is a lid that does. To a person that does not wander, there is not enlightenment. Fall seven times, stand up eight.
Japanese Proverb
A mended lid to a cracked pan.
Japanese Proverb
The devil can make a pot but he can't make a lid.
Croatian Proverb
Do not judge a person until the lid of his coffin is closed.
Chinese Proverb
A brother is a cooking pot, and a neighbour is a cooking pot lid.
Swahili Proverb
Every pot will find its lid.
Yiddish Proverb
If there is a lid that doesn't fit, then there is a lid that does.
Japanese Proverb
Every pot has a matching lid.
Filipino Proverb