Pot Proverbs

A watched pot never boils. (English Proverb)
Every little pot has a fitting lid. View proverb
Dutch Proverb
The earth is a giant cooking pot and men are the meat therein. View proverb
Madagascan Proverb
From all the fish in the pot you can only make one soup. View proverb
Madagascan Proverb
If you watch your pot, your food will not burn. View proverb
Mauritania Proverb
It is the pot that boils but the dish that gets the credit. View proverb
Cameroon Proverb
However little you think of the elephant, you can't say it won't fill a pot. View proverb
Cameroon Proverb
The world is a pot, man but a spoon in it. View proverb
Armenian Proverb
You don't put a wooden pot on the fire twice. View proverb
Persian Proverb
Do not put your spoon into the pot which does not boil for you. View proverb
Romanian Proverb
A clay pot of water is never hot-tempered. (Nigerian Proverb)
Flies will not land on a boiling pot. View proverb
Ukrainian Proverb
Cover up the pot, there's an eel in it. View proverb
Dutch Proverb
The counterfeit image of a pot with two ears. View proverb
Dutch Proverb
The pot always reveals its contents. View proverb
Lebanese Proverb
It's better to be the pot than the lid. View proverb
Colombian Proverb
One spoon of soup in need has more value than a pot of soup when we have an abundance of food. View proverb
Angolan Proverb
Good stew is best to be made in an old pot. View proverb
Togolese Proverb
If you have honey, don't lick the pot clean. View proverb
Yemeni Proverb
The pot-lid is always badly off: the pot gets all the sweet, the lid nothing but steam. View proverb
Yoruba Proverb
If you have no teeth, do not break the clay cooking pot. (Zambian Proverb)
The bigger the pot the more rice will stick to it. View proverb
Zanzibar Proverb
Don't throw out the old pot until you have the tinker makes a new one. View proverb
Zimbabwe Proverb
The brotherhood of coconuts is a meeting in the cook-in pot. View proverb
Swahili Proverb
If two selfish young men sit next to a pot of water, the water spills out on the ground. View proverb
Ghana Proverb
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