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If you are a host to your guest, be a host to his dog also.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

A guest has not to thank the host, but the host the guest.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about contentment

If you are a host to your guest, be a host to his dog as well.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about contentment

A guest should not cause his host's demise. When the guest is ready to leave, his host should not have given him a hunch-back.

Proverbs and old sayings Igbo

A guest sees more in an hour than a host in a year.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

It is better to host a good stranger than a bad brother.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about bad luck, bad, good, good luck

A guest who breaks the dishes of his host is not soon forgotten.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

Every guest hates the others, and the host hates them all.

Proverbs and old sayings Albanian

He must be a clever host that would take the devil into his hostelry.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about intelligence, devil

When the host smiles most blandly he has an eye to the guest's purse.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

A merry host makes merry guests.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

It is hard to steal where the host is a thief.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about thieves

Who reckons without his host must reckon again.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

Don't reckon with your host.

Proverbs and old sayings English

He that reckons without his host must reckon again.

Proverbs and old sayings French

Don't reckon without your host.

Proverbs and old sayings German

It is hard to steal where the host himself is a thief.

Proverbs and old sayings German about thieves

He reckons without his host.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

Better have one bee than a host of flies.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

The guest who seeks special attention muddies the host's tea.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about attention