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The problem with the palace attendant isn't how to steal the king's drums but where to play them from.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

A small tumbledown house is better than a communal palace.

Proverbs and old sayings about home, house

Anyone can? fancy his bed as a palace.

Proverbs and old sayings

Better the cottage where one is merry than the palace where one weeps.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

The palace leads to fame, the market to fortune, and loneliness to wisdom.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about solitude, fame, stores, wealth, wisdom

What good is a palace if it's inhabited by owls. Better a straw hut inhabited by humans.

Proverbs and old sayings about people, good, good luck

Love can turn a cottage into a golden palace.

Proverbs and old sayings German about love

A hut is a palace to the poor man.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about man

Home, dear home, small as thou art, to me thou art a palace.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about art, magic, home

Love lives in palaces as well as in thatched cottages.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about love

To have a hut built from mud here is better than a palace made from gold and marble on the Arabian Gulf.

Proverbs and old sayings

The doorstep of the palace is very slippery.

Proverbs and old sayings Polish

Content lodges oftener in cottages than palaces.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian

Better joy in a cottage than sorrow in a palace.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about joy, sadness

Women are like raindrops: some fall on palaces, others on ricefields.

Proverbs and old sayings Vietnamese about fall

Better my own cottage, than the palace of another.

Proverbs and old sayings Welsh

A lame cat is better than a swift horse when rats infest the palace.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese