Famous Proverbs
254 Proverbs about Burn / Page 5
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A burnt child fears the fire, and a bitten child fears a dog.42.
A small fire that warms you, is better than a large one that burns you.43.
Better blow hard than burn yourself.44.
He who has many irons in the fire, will let some of them burn.45.
He who tastes every man's broth, often burns his mouth.46.
It is as bad to spit out the fire and be shamed, as it is to swallow it and be burnt.47.
It is too late to throw water on the cinders when the house is burnt down.48.
Let him who would reach another a brand, beware that he do not burn his own hand.49.
The fire burns brightest on one's own hearth.50.
The fire heeds little whose cloak it burns.