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Dine with a stranger but save your love for your family.

Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian about family, love

Dine with a stranger, but save youur love for your famiuly.

Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian about love

Women believe the strangest of lies as long as they are wrapped up in praise.

Proverbs and old sayings French about faith, praise

It is strange! The ox eats hay and the dog eats bread, while the donkey carries wine but drinks water.

Proverbs and old sayings about wine, water

The cow licks no strange calf.

Proverbs and old sayings German

The cow does not lick a strange calf.

Proverbs and old sayings German

Self-praise stinks, friends praise hinks, the stranger's is sincere, and may last for a year.

Proverbs and old sayings German about praise, self-control

A stranger dances - he does not sing.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan

When you're in a strange city, adopt its manners.

Proverbs and old sayings about city, contentment

In a community, your reputation matters. in a strange place, your clothing counts.

Proverbs and old sayings about prestige

When the brothers fight to the death, a stranger inherits their father's estate.

Proverbs and old sayings about real estate, fight, death

Pity the man who has a stranger's spancel on him.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about man

Never sleep with a stranger or borrow from a neighbour.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about sleep

The stranger has big eyes but he doesn't see anything.

Proverbs and old sayings about eyes

If one comes to a fork of the road in a strange country, she stops to think.

Proverbs and old sayings about country

Money matters make strangers.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about money

First for self, then for the stranger.

Proverbs and old sayings about self-control

The song of a stranger-woman is answered after she has gone.

Proverbs and old sayings about woman

A stranger nearby is better than a far-away relative.

Proverbs and old sayings Korean

Do not eat the strangers' bread as this diminishes your stature.

Proverbs and old sayings