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Eat and drink with your relatives; do business with strangers.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek about affair, drinking

Be straightforward in all your dealing and noble with strangers.

Proverbs and old sayings Icelandic

Eat and drink with your relatives, but do business with strangers.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about affair, drinking

It is better to be naked in your place than to be a pasha with strangers.

Proverbs and old sayings

You have a lot of friends if you have money; otherwise there are only strangers.

Proverbs and old sayings Nepalese about money, contentment

It is better to be in chains with friends, than to be in a garden with strangers.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about garden

There are three things that have to be done quickly: burying the dead, opening the door for a stranger, and fixing your daughter's wedding.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about marriage, things

A person once wud, or deranged, is always suspected of being so, in the event of anything strange taking place.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about events, being, people

The zawan of your own country is better than the wheat of strangers.

Proverbs and old sayings Syrian about country

They are people of experience who do not sleep at a strange place.

Proverbs and old sayings Zulu about experience, sleep, people

Dear God: You do such wonderful things for complete strangers; why not for me?

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about things, god, contentment