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Happy the house in which there is no shaven crown.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about happiness, home, house

I mistress and you miss, who is to sweep the house?

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about home, house, contentment

He who has no house of his own is everywhere at home.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about home, house

Sour wine, old bacon, and rye bread keep a house rich.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about wine, wealth, home, house, old, olderness

In the rich woman's house she always commands; he never.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about wealth, home, house, woman

A house filled with guests is eaten up and ill spoken of.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about home, house

In a soap maker's house, a person who doesn't fall, slips.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about fall, people, home, house

When thou seest thy house in flames, go warm thyself by it.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about home, house

He who builds a house, or marries, is left with a lank purse.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about home, house

He who does not repair his gutter has a whole house to repair.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about home, house

It is a bad hen that eats at your house and lays at another's.

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

Better is the smoke of my own house than the fire of another's.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about smoke, fire, fire brigade, home, house

The woman in finery, the house in filth, but the doorway swept.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about home, house, woman

It goes ill in the house where the hen sings and the cock is silent.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about home, house

By the street of By-and-By one arrives at the house of Never.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about home, house

A beautiful wife without money is like a fine house without furniture.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about wife, money, home, house

Let there be food in the pigeon-house, and the pigeons will come to it.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about food, home, house

It fares ill with the house where the spinning-wheel commands the sword.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about home, house

The day I did not sweep the house, there came to it one I did not expect.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about home, house, day

Before you marry, have a house to live in, fields to till, and vines to cut.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about home, house, contentment