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There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.

Proverbs and old sayings English about bad luck, day, bad, good, good luck

Sometimes people who live in glass houses throw stones because their windows are painted.

Proverbs and old sayings English about people

Who weds a widow with three children takes four thieves into his house.

Proverbs and old sayings Estonian about thieves, children, home, house

Empty rooms make giddy housewives.

Proverbs and old sayings French

Lawyers' houses are built of fools' heads.

Proverbs and old sayings French about heads

Lawyers' houses are built on the heads of fools.

Proverbs and old sayings French about heads

If you want to love your household as much as your bread then you will have to knead your wife like dough.

Proverbs and old sayings French about wife, love, contentment

The mother said I will die, the wife said I will marry, and in the meantime the house is full of dirt.

Proverbs and old sayings Georgian about wife, mother, death, home, house

Fools build houses, wise men buy them.

Proverbs and old sayings German about commerce, man

With houses and gold, men are rarely bold.

Proverbs and old sayings German about man

Marrying is easy, but housekeeping is hard.

Proverbs and old sayings German

In old houses many mice, in old furs many lice.

Proverbs and old sayings German about old, olderness

High houses are mostly empty in the upper story.

Proverbs and old sayings German

It is a bad hen that lays in neighbour's houses.

Proverbs and old sayings German about bad luck, bad

The fingers of the housewife do more than a yoke of oxen.

Proverbs and old sayings German

Mother, I must have a husband, or I shall set fire to the house.

Proverbs and old sayings German about husband, mother, fire, fire brigade, home, house

So many houses, so many customs.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

An empty pantry has a fool housewife.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

He rushes into the houses together with the door.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

Whether it was the tenant who seduced the landlord's wife, or the landlord who seduced the tenant's wife, it is the tenant who would leave the house.

Proverbs and old sayings Igbo about tenants, wife, home, house