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Woe to the house where there is no chiding.

Proverbs and old sayings English about home, house

He that lives in a glass house must not throw stones.

Proverbs and old sayings English about home, house

A house built by the wayside is either too high or too low.

Proverbs and old sayings English about home, house

The first year let your house to your enemy; the second to your friend; the third live in it yourself.

Proverbs and old sayings English about enemies, home, house

Who never built a house thinks that the walls grow out of the ground.

Proverbs and old sayings Estonian about home, house

A house can't be built for the rainy season that is past.

Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian about season, past, home, house

Don't spend the evening in a house where you can't spend the night. A good name is better than good perfume. After the hyena has gone, the dog barks.

Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian about perfume, name, night, good, good luck, home, house, contentment

A widow, like a widower, is a house without a roof.

Proverbs and old sayings Finnish about home, house

Who stands by the door of his house is not yet gone away.

Proverbs and old sayings Finnish about home, house

A house ready made and a wife to make.

Proverbs and old sayings French about wife, home, house

In the fiddler's house every one is a dancer.

Proverbs and old sayings French about home, house

Fine dressing is a foul house, swept before the windows.

Proverbs and old sayings French about home, house

Never speak of a rope in the house of one who was hanged.

Proverbs and old sayings French about home, house

Mention not a rope in the house of one whose father was hanged.

Proverbs and old sayings French about home, house

It is a sorry house in which the cock is silent and the hen crows.

Proverbs and old sayings French about home, house

One is never so rich as when one removes (from one house to another).

Proverbs and old sayings French about wealth, home, house

He that would keep his house clean must not let priest or pigeon into it.

Proverbs and old sayings French about home, house

He that wants to keep his house clean must not let priest or pigeon into it.

Proverbs and old sayings French about home, house

The grass torch that burns a bad house, also burns a good one.

Proverbs and old sayings Ugandan about home, house, bad luck, bad, good, good luck

No house without a mouse.

Proverbs and old sayings German about home, house