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It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverbs and old sayings Jewish about love

A gadding girl is rarely coy.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

He who loves a one-eyed girl thinks that one-eyed girls are beautiful.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

The girl is more inviting who smells of wild thyme than she who smells of musk.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

If it is not a boy it will be a girl, says the fortune-teller.

Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about wealth

A neck without a head, buttocks without a hole and a girl without shame are not worth admiring or marrying.

Proverbs and old sayings Maltese about shame, heads

You cannot weld cake-dough to cast iron, nor a girl to an old man.

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

With a bottle and a girl one does not count the hours.

Proverbs and old sayings Polish

When a girl is born it is like having six thieves invade the house.

Proverbs and old sayings Polish about thieves, home, house

A girl, a vineyard and a beanfield are difficult to guard.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese

A girl, a vineyard, an orchard, and a bean-field, are hard to watch.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about garden

A girl never grows into a lady.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian

When a girl is born all four walls weep.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian

A girl only gets pregnant once.

Proverbs and old sayings Rwandan

She would be a nice girl if she didn't have her head.

Proverbs and old sayings about heads

One for sorrow, two for joy, Three for a girl, four for a boy. Five for silver, six for gold, And seven for a secret that must never be told.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about joy, secret, sadness

An ugly girl blames the mirror.

Proverbs and old sayings Serbian

Her beauty is the only dowery a beautiful girl needs.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about beauty

The girl with stars in her eyes will shine like the moonlight.

Proverbs and old sayings about celebrity, stars, eyes

A girl draws more than a rope.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish