— English Good bargains empty the purse.
— Italian He who gives fair words feeds you with an empty spoon.
— English If your fields are not ploughed,
your store house will be empty.
— Chinese If your pocket gets empty,
your faults will be many.
— African (Libya) ❖ If you go to sleep with an empty stomach,
you will count the beams on the ceiling.
— Yiddish If the head be left empty, it is not well.
— Turkish If a bamboo tube sounds loudly, it is empty.
— Filipino If the hands are empty the mouth is empty.
— Japanese It is the petty expenses that empty the purse.
— Italian ❖ It is hard to catch birds with an empty hand.
— German It is hard to labor with an empty belly.
— Danish It is bad marketing with empty pockets.
— Dutch It's hard to catch hawks with empty hands.
— Dutch Love ends when the can is empty.
— Icelandic ❖ New churches and new taverns are seldom empty.
— German On an empty belly every burden is heavy.
— Russian One day's stay does not empty a granary.
— African (Shona) Prayer or no prayer, you can't eat out of an empty bowl.
— Slovak That is but an empty purse that is full of other men's money.
— English ❖ The priest and the cock sing on an empty stomach.
— Russian The hunter that speaks too much, goes home empty handed.
— Ugandan The full sow knows not the squeak of the empty one.
— Welsh The ocean cannot be emptied with a can.
— Yiddish The heaviest burden is an empty pocket.
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