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The castle of Buda was not built in one day.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian about day

By degrees the castles are built.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

It's gradually that castles are built.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

A cabin with plenty of food is better than a hungry castle.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about food

Don't be ever in court or a castle without a woman to make your excuse.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about woman

A king's castle is his home.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about home

A mouse will put the finishing stroke to a castle wall.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

He keeps watch over a good castle who has guarded his own constitution.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about good, good luck

My home is my castle.

Proverbs and old sayings Polish about home

The castle gates will always open for gold-laden donkeys.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian

I have a good bow, but it is in the Castle.

Proverbs and old sayings about good, good luck

It's easy to keep a castle that's not besieged.

Proverbs and old sayings

Time builds castles, and time destroys them.

Proverbs and old sayings Serbian about time

Grain by grain, a loaf; stone by stone, a castle.

Proverbs and old sayings Serbian

In the countryside eat cardoon, because at the castle you'll eat pigeon.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about contentment

He who has a good looking wife, a castle on the river, or a vineyard on the roadside is never without war.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about war, wife, good, good luck

He who has a handsome wife, a castle on the frontier, or a vineyard on the roadside, is never without war.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about war, wife

A small cottage wherein laughter lives is worth more than a castle full of tears.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about laughter, tears

It is better to be a master in a cottage than servant in a castle.

Proverbs and old sayings Icelandic

He thinks that he himself is the very stone that was hurled at the castle.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish