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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

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

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

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

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

Go to friends for advice, woman for love, strangers for charity and relatives for nothing.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about charity, advice, woman, nothing, love

Go to friends for advice; to women for pity; to strangers for charity; to relatives for nothing.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about charity, advice, nothing