• A day without bread lasts long.~ Spanish Proverb
• All sorrows are less with bread. ~Miguel de Cervantes
• Another man’s bread will not fill your belly.~ Arabian Proverb
• A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.~ Georges Bernanos
• A priest blesses his own bread first.~ Greek Proverb
• Avoid those who don’t like bread and children.~ Swiss Proverb
• A young wife, new bread, and green wood devastate a house.~ Dutch Proverb
• Begged bread has a hard crust.~ German Proverb
• Better bread in the basket than a feather in your cap.~ French Proverb
• Better dry bread in peacetime than meat in wartime.~ Hungarian Proverb
• Better to have bread and an onion with peace than stuffed fowl with strife.~ Arabian Proverb
• Black soil produces white bread.~ Norwegian Proverb
• Borrowed bread lies heavy on the stomach.~ Ukranian Proverb
• Bread and salt never quarrel.~ Russian Proverb
• Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul. ~The Koran
• Bread is the staff of life.~ Traditional Proverb
• Bread of flour is good; but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a good book.~John Ruskin
• Bread that must be sliced with an axe is bread that is too nourishing ~ Fran Lebowitz
• Check before you bite if it is bread or a stone.~ Croatian Proverb
• Cheese and bread make the cheeks red.~ German Proverb
• Don’t praise the bread that is not out of the oven.~ Danish Proverb
• Eaten bread is soon forgotten.~ Thomas Fuller
• Even the thinnest piece of meat will happily marry a piece of bread.~ Turkish Proverb
• 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
• Foreign bread is good for your son.~ Mexican Proverb
• Friendship is the bread of the heart.~ Mary Russell Mitford
• Give me, Lord, my daily bread, I will get my own brandy.~ Yiddish Proverb
• Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.~ The Holy Bible
• God gave teeth; He will give bread.~ Lithuanian Proverb
• Half a loaf is better than no bread.~ Traditional Proverb
• Health and appetite impart the sweetness to sugar, bread, and meat ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
• He fed his spirit with the bread of books.~Edwin Markham
• Hope is the poor man’s bread. ~Gary Herbert
• I don’t even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.~ Katherine Cebrian
• If fools ate no bread, corn would be cheap.~ Dutch Proverb
• 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 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
• If there’s no bread, cakes are very good.~ Spanish Proverb
• If you find no fish, you have to eat bread.~ Ghanaian Proverb
• If you have two loaves of bread, sell one and buy a lily. ~ Chinese Proverb
• I judge a restaurant by the bread and by the coffee.~ Burt Lancaster
• I sing the song of the person whose bread I eat.~ French Proverb
• It is bread that keeps one warm, not fur.~ Russian Proverb
• It is hard to pay for bread that has already been eaten.~ Danish Proverb
• Look for cake, and lose your bread.~ Yiddish Proverb
• Love doesn’t sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all of the time, made new. ~Ursula K. LeGuin
• Love is like butter — it’s good with bread.~ Yiddish Proverb
• Make bread while the oven is hot.~ Iranian Proverb
• Make do with bread and butter until God can bring you jam. ~ Arabian Proverb
• Manage with bread and salted butter until God brings something to eat with it.~ Moroccan Proverb
• Man shall not live by bread alone.~ The Holy Bible
• Men were born with bread in their hands women were born with empty hands.~ Hebrew Proverb
• No one will give a pauper bread, but everybody will give him advice. ~ Armenian Proverb
• Oh, God! that bread should be so dear! And flesh and blood so cheap!~ Thomas Hood
• Once you’ve cut the bread, you cannot put it together again.~ Latvian Proverb
• One’s own simple bread is much better than someone else’s pilaf. ~ Azerbaijani Proverb
• One can get sick of cake, but never of bread.~ Russian Proverb
• One may live without bread, not without roses. ~ Jean Richepin
• Rather a piece of bread with a happy heart than wealth with grief.~ Egyptian Proverb
• Speak plain — call bread bread, and wine wine.~ Mexican Proverb
• Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.~ The Holy Bible
• Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.~ Thomas Jefferson
• 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
• The best advice one can give to the hungry is bread.~ Italian Proverb
• The breakfast slimes, angel food cake, doughnuts and coffee, white bread and gravy cannot build an enduring nation. ~Martin H. Fischer
• The dog wags his tail, not for you, but for your bread.~ Portuguese Proverb
• The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.~ Mother Teresa of Calcutta
• The man of many trades begs his bread on Sunday.~ Romanian Proverb
• 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 question of bread for myself is a material question, but the question of bread for my neighbor is a spiritual question ~ Nikolai Bordyaev
• There are so many hungry people that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.~ Corita Kent
• There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.~ Author Unknown
• There is no old bread that cannot find its cheese.~ French Proverb
• The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
• The starving man will never burn his bread.~ Croatian Proverb
• To a starving man bread is sweeter than honey.~ Lithuanian Proverb
• To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death. ~Pearl S. Buck
• To offer friendship to one who is looking for love, is like giving bread to someone dying of thirst.~ Spanish Proverb
• Two things only the people anxiously desire – bread and circuses. ~
• When I eat your bread, I sing your song.~ German Proverb
• Where God gives hard bread He also gives sharp teeth.~ German Proverb
• 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
• Who gives the bread lays down the authority.~ Spanish Proverb
• With a piece of bread in your hand you’ll find paradise under a pine tree.~ Russian Proverb
• With bread and wine you can walk your road ~ Spanish Proverb
• You can’t fill your belly painting pictures of bread.~ Chinese Proverb

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