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It's no time to play chess when the house is on fire.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about fire, fire brigade, home, house, time

It is no time to play chess when the house is on fire.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about fire, fire brigade, home, house, time

The mouse does not leave the cat's house with a bellyful.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about home, house

Since the house is on fire I will warm myself at the blaze.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about fire, fire brigade, home, house

Every one likes justice in another's house, none in his own.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about justice, home, house

The smoke of my own house is better than another man's fire.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about smoke, fire, fire brigade, home, house, man

It is a sorry house where the hens crow and the cock is silent.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about home, house

It is too late to come with water when the house is burnt down.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about home, house, water

When your neighbor's house is on fire, carry water to your own.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about fire, fire brigade, home, house, water

The fool knows more in his own house than the sage in other men's.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about home, house, man

He who buys by the pennyworth keeps his own house and other men's too.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about home, house, man

When house and land are gone and spent, then learning is most excellent.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about home, house

There is little peace in that house where the hen crows and the cock is mute.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about peace, home, house

He who builds a house in the market-place, builds either too high or too low.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about stores, home, house

Better a bad wife than an empty house.

Proverbs and old sayings about wife, home, house, bad luck, bad

Every man know whe' him own house de leak.

Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican about home, house, man

In a wealthy man's house there is no lean dog.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about home, house, man

The heaviest rains fall on the house that leaks most.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about fall, home, house

As soon as a man leaves his house he has seven enemies.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about enemies, home, house, man

Into the house where joy lives, happiness will gladly come.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about happiness, joy, home, house