Famous Proverbs
264 Proverbs about Lack / Page 17
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Pepper is black and hath a good smack.162.
Spice is black, but it has a sweet smack.163.
The devil is not so black as he is painted.164.
Every white hath its black, and every sweet its sour.165.
In vain is the mill-clock if the miller his hearing lack.166.
The frying-pan said to the kettle, "Avaunt, black brows!"167.
A red beard and a black head, catch him with a good trick and take him dead.168.
Also the black cow produces white milk.169.
If the metal is not good, you cannot take it out on the blacksmith.170.
If the goat says it will become a sheep, there will always be black spots on its body.