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Praise your horse tomorrow, your son when he has a beard, your daughter when she is married and yourself never.

Proverbs and old sayings Finnish about praise

Between promising and giving a man should marry his daughter.

Proverbs and old sayings French about man

With a good son-in-law you gain a son, with a bad one you lose your daughter, too.

Proverbs and old sayings about law, bad luck, bad, contentment, good, good luck

If your son-in-law is good, you gained a son. if he is bad, you've lost a daughter.

Proverbs and old sayings about law, bad luck, bad, contentment, good, good luck

One likes the priest, someone else his wife, I prefer his daughter.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian about wife

Many an Irish property was increased by the lace of a daughter's petticoat.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world.

Proverbs and old sayings about world, life, good, good luck

A good son-in-law is like the acquisition of a new son; a bad one is like the loss of your daughter.

Proverbs and old sayings Jewish about law, bad luck, bad, good, good luck

If the mother had never been in the oven, she would not have looked for her daughter there.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about mother

See how the boy is with his sister and the other ones of his home lodge and you can know how the man will be with your daughter.

Proverbs and old sayings about home, americans, man, contentment

There are three things that have to be done quickly: burying the dead, opening the door for a stranger, and fixing your daughter's wedding.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about marriage, things

Wipe the nose of your neighbour's son, and marry him to your daughter.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese

The mother-in-law does not remember that she was once a daughter-in-law.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about law, mother

Between promising and performing a man may marry his daughter.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about man

Do not buy a carrier's ass, or marry an innkeeper's daughter.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about commerce

He who has both money and bread, may choose with whom his daughter to wed.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about money

Mother, what is marrying? Spinning, bearing children, and crying, daughter.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about children, mother

Do you want to see a wolf with young (i.e. an insatiable plunderer)? Marry your daughter.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about contentment

A son will learn from his father to make a living, a daughter will learn from her mother to cut clothes.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish about clothes, mother