Provençal expression

Tout fai ventre mai que i 'entre

Wisdom

Literal translation

Everything fills the belly, provided it goes in there.

Meaning

anything goes, as long as it fills the belly

Explanation

Everything fills the belly, provided it goes in there. A proverb on satiety: any food counts, as long as it nourishes.

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qu douno i paure, prèsto à Diéuhe who gives to the poor lends to God Mies vau pan à la paniero qu'un bèl ome à la carrierobread in the basket is worth more than a handsome man in the street un bènfa n'es jamai perdu, s'un ingrat noun l'a reçaupua good deed is never wasted, unless met with ingratitude qu bèn fara, bèn troubarado good and good will come back to you fai de bèn à Bertrand, te lou rènd en cagantantdo good to Bertrand, he repays it with ill treatment Qu mies noun pòu èstre, emé sa mouié se couchefor lack of better, one sleeps with one's own wife