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Misfortunes make strange bedfellows.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

Man's life is a sojourn in a strange land.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about life, man

The ox in a strange stall often casts a longing look towards the door.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about longing

A strange glass is emptied in one draught; your own glass not even in ten.

Proverbs and old sayings

The son of a son is dear, the son of a daughter a stranger.

Proverbs and old sayings Lebanese

Advice is a stranger; if he's welcome he stays for the night; if not, he leaves the same day.

Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about advice, night, day

Let the wary stranger who seeks refreshment keep silent with sharpened hearing.

Proverbs and old sayings

The house is our father's and the strangers came to kick us out.

Proverbs and old sayings about home, house

I'm human; nothing that is human is strange to me. A good run is better than a bad fight.

Proverbs and old sayings Polish about human imperfections, fight, nothing, bad luck, bad, good, good luck

The savage ox grows tame on strange ground.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese

The ass that trespasses on a stranger's premises will leave them laden with wood.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese

He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about intelligence

The tears of strangers are only water.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about tears, water

A stranger's soul is like a dark forest.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about dark, soul

Do not do strange acts merely for the sake of astonishing your friends.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

Don't trust old people and strangers.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about people, old, olderness

The love of a stranger is like water in a basket.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about water, love

Better a devil you know than a hundred strangers.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about devil, americans, contentment

The fierce ox becomes tame on strange ground.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

When you go to a strange house knock at the door.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about home, house, contentment