He who is a guest in two houses, starves.
Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian
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Women in state affairs are like monkeys in glass-houses.
Proverbs and old sayings Irish about state
A whistling woman and a crowing hen will bring no luck to the house they are in.
Proverbs and old sayings Irish about bad luck, good luck, home, house, woman
'Tis good feasting in other men's houses.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about man, good, good luck
It is not easy to steal in thieves' houses.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about thieves
Water, smoke, and a vicious woman, drive men out of the house.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about smoke, home, house, woman, man, water
It takes four living men to carry one dead man out of a house.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about man, home, house
When there is a fire in the neighbourhood carry water to your own house.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about fire, fire brigade, home, house, water
When cockroach get in a trouble, him well glad fe fun go hide a fowl-house.
Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican about problems, home, house
The dog called Sorrow, without eating, will be fat in every house.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about sadness, home, house
Home affairs have their staff, which cannot be brandished by anyone but the head of the house.
Proverbs and old sayings about home, heads, house
Safely housed to listen to the storm outside.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin
They build houses but shall not inhabit them.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin
Safely housed to listen to the storm outside. [To contemplate danger from a safe place. ]
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about danger
The beauty of a housewife will not put more fat into the soup.
Proverbs and old sayings Lithuanian about beauty
It is not the fire in the fireplace which warms the house, but the couple who get along well.
Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about couple, fire, fire brigade, home, house
Do not be like the mosquito that bites the owner of the house.
Proverbs and old sayings Guatemalan about home, house
When the husband is a hen and the wife is a cock, the house is topsy-turvy.
Proverbs and old sayings Maltese about husband, wife, home, house
A housewife who complains that there is not enough foodstuff in the market should remember that if her husband adds to what is already available, there would be more for everyone.
Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian about husband, stores
Woe to being a housewife/househusband, you buy one thing, you don't have two others.
Proverbs and old sayings Persian about commerce, being, things, contentment
