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Better the child weeps than your wife.

Proverbs and old sayings about children, wife

So not roast all your corn in the winter.

Proverbs and old sayings

Good stew is best to be made in an old pot.

Proverbs and old sayings about good, good luck, old, olderness

In the world there is more madness than sanity.

Proverbs and old sayings about world

You must kill the hornets to get rid of the nest.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

Absence polishes passion, presence reinforces it.

Proverbs and old sayings

Don't butter the skillet before catching the fish.

Proverbs and old sayings about fishing

The tears running down your face do not blind you.

Proverbs and old sayings about tears, blind, face, contentment

When all men say you are a dog, it is time to bark.

Proverbs and old sayings about man, time, contentment

In quietness and in confidence shall be your strength.

Proverbs and old sayings

He bawls like a calf because he is as weak as a kitten.

Proverbs and old sayings

If you hurt the reputation of another, you damage your own.

Proverbs and old sayings about prestige, contentment

It is impossible to go and look into the stomach of another.

Proverbs and old sayings about impossible

A woman's tongue is sharp enough to pierce the toughest flesh.

Proverbs and old sayings about woman

With gold you can make a road to heaven but it will end in hell.

Proverbs and old sayings about hell, end, contentment

Breed up a serpent and he will strike when you are in deep slumber.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

The fish, seeing the water has dried up, struggles mightily in the mud.

Proverbs and old sayings about fishing, water

The man who has never experienced evil does not know the worth of what is good.

Proverbs and old sayings about good, good luck, man

If there is no traitor in your house, the witches will never be able to get at you.

Proverbs and old sayings about home, house, contentment

We are all flesh and blood of the earth and so will return to the ground as rotten maggot encrusted relics.

Proverbs and old sayings about blood, earth