Bread Proverbs


Sayings about Bread

You can’t fill your belly painting pictures of bread. ~ Chinese Proverbs

Make bread while the oven is hot. ~ Iranian Proverbs

Never fall out with your bread and butter. ~ English Proverbs

If fools ate no bread, corn would be cheap. ~ Dutch Proverbs

Love is like butter — it’s good with bread. ~ Yiddish Proverbs

A piece of bread in your pocket is better than a feather in your hat. ~ Swedish Proverbs

Give me, Lord, my daily bread, I will get my own brandy. ~ Yiddish Proverb

If you find no fish, you have to eat bread. ~ Ghanaian Proverbs

Make do with bread and butter until God can bring you jam. ~ Arabian Proverbs

Avoid those who don’t like bread and children. ~ Swiss Proverbs

If someone hits you with a stone, hit him with bread; your bread will return to you and his stone will return to him. ~ Tunisian Proverbs

Bread is the staff of life. ~ Traditional Proverb

Bread and wine start a banquet. ~ French Proverbs

It is bread that keeps one warm, not fur. ~ Russian Proverbs

With bread and wine you can walk your road ~ Spanish Proverb

Check before you bite if it is bread or a stone. ~ Croatian Proverbs

If you have two loaves of bread, sell one and buy a lily. ~ Chinese Proverb

The dog wags his tail, not for you, but for your bread. ~ Portuguese Proverbs

God gave teeth; He will give bread. ~ Lithuanian Proverbs

Cheese and bread make the cheeks red. ~ German Proverbs

A day without bread lasts long. ~ Spanish Proverb

If the bread in the oven is a failure you lose a week; if the harvest is a failure you lose a year; if marriage is a failure then you lose a life.~ Estonian Proverb

Better to have bread and an onion with peace than stuffed fowl with strife. ~ Arabian Proverb

The God who gave us teeth will also give us bread. ~ Czech Proverbs

Look for cake, and lose your bread. ~ Yiddish Proverb

Better bread in the basket than a feather in your cap. ~ French Proverb

When I eat your bread, I sing your song. ~ German Proverb

Half a loaf is better than no bread. ~ Traditional Proverb

Begged bread has a hard crust. ~ German Proverb

Who gives the bread lays down the authority. ~ Spanish Proverb

If there’s no bread, cakes are very good. ~ Spanish Proverb

Bread and salt never quarrel. ~ Russian Proverb

To offer friendship to one who is looking for love, is like giving bread to someone dying of thirst. ~ Spanish Proverb

A priest blesses his own bread first. ~ Greek Proverb

It is hard to pay for bread that has already been eaten. ~ Danish Proverbs

Black soil produces white bread. ~ Norwegian Proverbs

A young wife, new bread, and green wood devastate a house. ~ Dutch Proverb

I sing the song of the person whose bread I eat. ~ French Proverb

Where God gives hard bread He also gives sharp teeth. ~ German Proverb

Rather a piece of bread with a happy heart than wealth with grief. ~ Egyptian Proverbs

Another man’s bread will not fill your belly. ~ Arabian Proverb

No one will give a pauper bread, but everybody will give him advice. ~ Armenian Proverbs

It is a long day, a day without bread. ~ French Proverb

The best advice one can give to the hungry is bread. ~ Italian Proverb

When you have only two dollars left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a rose with the other. ~ Chinese Proverb

Even the thinnsest piece of meat will happily marry a piece of bread. ~ Turkish Proverb

There is no old bread that cannot find its cheese. ~ French Proverb

Manage with bread and salted butter until God brings something to eat with it. ~ Moroccan Proverb

The man of many trades begs his bread on Sunday. ~ Romanian Proverb

Foreign bread is good for your son. ~ Mexican Proverb

Long fasting doesn’t save bread. ~ Dutch Proverb

Borrowed bread lies heavy on the stomach. ~ Ukrainian Proverb

With a piece of bread in your hand you’ll find paradise under a pine tree. ~ Russian Proverb

Men were born with bread in their hands women were born with empty hands. ~ Hebrew Proverb

Speak plain — call bread bread, and wine wine. ~ Mexican Proverb

Once you’ve cut the bread, you cannot put it together again. ~ Latvian Proverb

Better dry bread in peacetime than meat in wartime. ~ Hungarian Proverb

Don’t praise the bread that is not out of the oven. ~ Danish Proverb

To a starving man bread is sweeter than honey. ~ Lithuanian Proverb

Favorite saying about bread

Quotations about Bread

The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one. ~ Erma Bombeck

The breakfast slimes, angel food cake, doughnuts and coffee, white bread and gravy cannot build an enduring nation. ~Martin H. Fischer

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul. ~ John Muir

Feriendship is th bread of the heart. ~ Mary Russell Mitford

Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread. ~ Richard Wright

Health and appetite impart the sweetness to sugar, bread, and meat ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second. ~ Edward Bellamy

To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death. ~ Pearl S. Buck

Hope is the poor man’s bread. ~Gary Herbert

Where our bread is concerned, it is a material matter. Where our neighbor’s bread is concerned, it is a spiritual matter. ~ I.D. Douglas

One may live without bread, not without roses. ~ Jean Richepin

Two things only the people anxiously desire – bread and circuses. ~ Juvenal

Some people who cast their bread upon the waters expect it to return as French toast. ~ Author Unknown

Man lives for science as well as bread. ~ William James

Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; he who comes to me shall not hunger, and he who believes in me shall never thirst.” ~ Bible

The question of bread for myself is a material question, but the question of bread for my neighbor is a spiritual question ~ Nikolai Bordyaev

Bread of flour is good; but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a good book. ~ John Ruskin

Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul. ~ Koran

I don’t even butter my bread; I consider that cooking. ~ Katherine Cebrian

Eaten bread is soon forgotten. ~ Thomas Fuller

He fed his spirit with the bread of books. ~ Edwin Markham

Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. ~ Bible

Man shall not live by bread alone. ~ Bible

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. ~ Mother Teresa of Calcutta

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but principally by catch words. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

All sorrows are less with bread. ~ Miguel de Cervantes

A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread. ~ Georges Bernanos

Oh, God! That bread should be so dear! And flesh and blood so cheap! ~ Thomas Hood

The Sky is the daily bread of the imagination. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The beginning and almost the end of all good law is that everyone shall work for their bread and receive good bread for their work. ~ John Ruskin

I judge a restaurant by the bread and by the coffee. ~ Burt Lancaster

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  1. Szilard (author)

    “If someone hits you with a stone, hit him with bread…” this is also a Hungarian proverb, there it is attributed to Jesus, but it really comes from Kings 2. One of the stories there used to be abbreviated like this for popular bible study purposes for centuries.

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